Direct Flights from Oakland to Long Beach
Long Beach · California
Nonstop service from OAK to LGB on Southwest. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
16 cities have a nonstop to Long Beach, Oakland among them.
How long to go to Long Beach for, from Oakland
1h 10m in the air, 353 miles: short enough that a single night in Long Beach is worth it, and a day trip is not absurd.
With roughly 5 departures a day, you are not tied to one flight: if a meeting overruns or the weather turns, there is another one behind it.
About Long Beach
Long Beach is a large port city in Los Angeles County in Southern California. Long Beach has some nice people-gathering amenities and genuine tourist attractions, such as a world-class aquarium and the Queen Mary floating museum/hotel. Special events are also held in the city like the annual Long Beach Grand Prix and the annual Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride event. When compared to other areas like Hollywood, West Hollywood, Santa Monica and West L.A., Long Beach may not always be at the top of someone's tourist visit to the Los Angeles area, but the city draws its fair share of visitors and has proven it can definitely hold its own.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Long Beach
- 20th Century Studios, Inc., formerly Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, is an American film production and distribution company currently owned by the Walt Disney Studios, the film studios division of the Disney Ent…
- Disneyland is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, United States.
- The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark that consists of more than 2,800 five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the…
- DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks SKG and DreamWorks, is an American film studio and distribution label of Amblin Partners.
- Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio which produces animated feature films and short films for the Walt Disney Company.
- The Hollywood Sign is an American landmark and cultural icon overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles. Originally the Hollywoodland Sign, it is situated on Mount Lee, above Beachwood Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains.
- The Getty Center, in Los Angeles, California, US, is a campus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust.
- The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an American art museum in Los Angeles, California, housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. It is operated by the J.
- La Brea Tar Pits comprise an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles, United States.
- USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa.
- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits.
- Nickelodeon Animation Studio Inc. is an American animation studio owned by Paramount Skydance Corporation through CBS Studios.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Long Beach weather, compared with Oakland
8° warmer than Oakland on average across the year, on daytime highs:
- January
- Long Beach 68°F · Oakland 58°F · 10° warmer
- April
- Long Beach 72°F · Oakland 66°F · 6° warmer
- July
- Long Beach 82°F · Oakland 72°F · 10° warmer
- October
- Long Beach 78°F · Oakland 72°F · 6° warmer
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Long Beach
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Long Beach is October–July, when daytime highs are a comfortable 67–82°F.
- How long to stay
- Long Beach rewards a longer visit — a full week lets you explore its many sights, from 20th Century Studios, Disneyland, and Hollywood Walk of Fame and beyond.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Oakland to Long Beach?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Oakland (OAK) to Long Beach (LGB) on Southwest.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Oakland to Long Beach?
- Southwest flies nonstop between Oakland (OAK) and Long Beach (LGB).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Oakland to Long Beach?
- There are about 5 nonstop departures per day (roughly 35 per week) from Oakland to Long Beach.
- How far is Long Beach from Oakland?
- Long Beach is about 353 miles from Oakland by air.
- What is there to do in Long Beach?
- Popular things to do include 20th Century Studios, Disneyland, Hollywood Walk of Fame, DreamWorks Pictures, and more.
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Airports near Oakland
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