Nissan lease deals in California

This page is the top of our Nissan section. From here you go down to the Nissan model hubs, among them Rogue, Sentra, Kicks and Pathfinder. The Rogue Plug-In Hybrid lives on the Rogue hub alongside the gas car.

Pricing works the same way on every Nissan we publish. Each car is a real VIN with a Hunter Score from 0 to 100 and an open methodology behind that score, so you can see why one car ranks above another. The price is one locked all-in number, and under it we open the whole lease calculation: money factor, residual, lease cash where it applies, and every fee line. Nothing is held back for a phone call, because there is no phone call. You pick up the car at the winning dealer, and you see the pickup location and the full locked price before you commit to anything. The strongest Nissan programs today sit with Southern California dealers, so if you live far from there, plan the pickup trip into your decision.

Rogue is the volume compact SUV and the default answer for most families. Its hub holds 86 cars from $309 a month, and that count includes 24 cars of the Rogue Plug-In Hybrid, which starts higher at $498. That is enough spread that you can usually match the trim to the budget instead of the other way around. Sentra is the compact sedan and our low-payment entry point into Nissan: 118 cars across 3 trims. If the monthly payment is the thing you are solving for, start on the Sentra hub. Kicks is the subcompact crossover, 93 cars across 5 trims, and the useful detail is that AWD is available across the whole trim ladder, so you are not forced up to an expensive trim to get it. Pathfinder is the three-row family SUV, 89 cars across 7 trims, for people who actually need the third row rather than the idea of it.

Other Nissan models in stock: 101 Altima, 60 Frontier, 21 LEAF, 16 Armada, 15 Z and 13 Murano. They are in the list above too.

A quick way to choose: smallest payment, Sentra. One car for a family, Rogue. Small footprint with the option of AWD at any trim, Kicks. Seven seats, Pathfinder. Each model hub shows the live cars, the trims we actually have, and the locked price on each VIN, so the choice is made against real inventory and not a brochure.

We have a hard rule: if there is no live bank program behind a deal for a given term, that deal is not shown. No estimate, no fallback to a generic database, no placeholder number to get you into a conversation. Most Nissan models here clear that bar on both sides, so you can lease them or finance them, and both sets of numbers are open on the car's page. The Kicks clears it on one side only: NMAC runs a lease program on it and no finance program, so the Kicks is lease only and we quote no APR on it at all

What this means in practice: pick the structure that fits your life, not the one that fits our margin. Lease if you want the lower monthly and a clean exit in 24 to 36 months; finance if you want to own it at the end and keep the car past the warranty. On any Nissan where a finance program is live, the APR you see is the bank's real subvented rate, not a teaser. Where it is missing, the program is missing, and we say so instead of inventing a number

Nissan USA covers a new car for 3 years or 36,000 miles basic, 5 years or 60,000 miles powertrain, and 8 years or 100,000 miles on the EV battery and EV system. Here is the honest nuance that matters on a lease: a 36-month lease at 12,000 miles a year finishes at exactly 36,000 miles, which is the basic-warranty line. There is no cushion. You do not run past the warranty, you run out with it, on the same day. If you drive more than 12,000 miles a year, you cross the basic-warranty line before the lease ends and the last stretch is on you.

This is shorter than what Hyundai and Kia offer. Their basic runs 5 years or 60,000 miles and their powertrain runs 10 years or 100,000 miles, and that is a real, verifiable reason someone picks one of those brands instead. We are not going to talk you out of it. What the shorter Nissan warranty does not mean is that a 24 to 36 month Nissan lease leaves you exposed for years: on a 24-month lease at normal mileage you are inside basic coverage the whole way with room to spare, and the powertrain and EV numbers run well past any lease term we publish. The honest summary is that the Nissan warranty is thinner, that this matters most at 36 months and high mileage, and that it matters much less at 24 months. Weigh it against the price you see, since the price is the whole reason the trade-off is worth discussing at all.