List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom

List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom

Map of telephone dialling codes in the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, 2019

The United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies have adopted an open telephone numbering plan in the public switched telephone network. The national telephone numbering plan is maintained by Ofcom, the regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. This list is based on the official standard, but includes defunct codes and historical changes, including the derivation of the two-letter identities, where known. Dialling codes do not correspond to political boundaries: for example, the Coventry dialling code covers a large area of Warwickshire, and the Manchester code covers part or all of several neighbouring towns.

When dialling within the country, all area codes are preceded by the national trunk prefix 0, which has been included in all listings in this article. 0 was traditionally the number dialled for the operator for long-distance calls before subscriber trunk dialling (STD) was introduced, and so was retained as a prefix for direct-dialled calls. In the majority of areas, the area code still corresponds to the original STD letter code. When dialling from abroad, the 0 prefix is not dialled. When dialling within the same area, the area code is not needed, save for a few areas that do require this. When calling from a mobile telephone or through a voice over IP service, the area code is always needed.

Code prefixes

List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom

Initial digits	Service type
00	International call prefix
01	Geographic area codes since 1995
02	Geographic area codes since 2000
03	Non-geographic numbers charged at geographic rates
04	Reserved
05	Reserved (previously, corporate numbering and VoIP)
06	Reserved
07	Mobile telephony, paging services and personal numbering
08	Freephone and revenue share non-geographic numbers
09	Premium-rate services

List of dialling codes

List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom

<table><thead><tr><th>Short codes</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>02x yyyy yyyy [eight-digit local number]</td><td>011x yyy yyyy [seven-digit local number]</td><td>01x1 yyy yyyy [seven-digit local number]</td></tr><tr><td>020 to 029</td><td>0113 to 0119</td><td>0121 to 0191</td></tr><tr><td>020</td><td>London (previously 0171 and 0181) (previously 071 and 081) (previously 01)</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>0121</td><td>Birmingham (B1) (previously 021)</td></tr><tr><td>023</td><td>Southampton and Portsmouth (previously 01703 and 01705) (previously 0703 and 0705)</td><td>0113</td><td>Leeds (previously 0532)</td><td>0131</td><td>Edinburgh (E1) (previously 031)</td></tr><tr><td>024</td><td>Coventry (previously 01203) (previously 0203)</td><td>0114</td><td>Sheffield (previously 0742)</td><td>0141</td><td>Glasgow (G1) (previously 041)</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td>0115</td><td>Nottingham (previously 0602)</td><td>0151</td><td>Liverpool (L1) (previously 051)</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td>0116</td><td>Leicester (previously 0533)</td><td>0161</td><td>Manchester (M1) (previously 061)</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td>0117</td><td>Bristol (previously 0272)</td><td>0171</td><td>unused (was Inner London until 2000) (previously 071) (previously 01)</td></tr><tr><td>028</td><td>Northern Ireland (previously used multiple 01xxx and 01xxxx area codes until 2000) (previously used multiple 0xxx and 0xxxx area codes until 1995)</td><td>0118</td><td>Reading (previously 01734) (previously 0734)</td><td>0181</td><td>unused (was Outer London until 2000) (previously 081) (previously 01)</td></tr><tr><td>029</td><td>Cardiff (previously 01222) (previously 0222)</td><td></td><td></td><td>0191</td><td>Tyne & Wear and Durham, i.e., Tyneside, Sunderland, and Durham (previously 091)</td></tr></tbody></table>

For an explanation of the two-letter STD codes used below, see Introduction of area codes.

ELNS denotes Extended Linked Numbering Scheme areas, where an area code is associated with more than one place name.

Long codes
01xxx [mostly six-digit local numbers] and 01xxxx [mostly five-digit local numbers] (but not 01x1 codes)
01200 to 01470	01471 to 01762	01763 to 01999

01426, 01523 and other non-standard 01 prefixes were briefly used for pagers in the late 1990s and then moved to new 076 prefixes in the Big Number Change in 2000/2001.

In several area codes, a block of 1,000 numbers is set aside for use as fictional numbers for drama.

Code length

The length of the area code part and the local number part is found as follows:

Number format	NSN	Geographic area code
2+8 only	10	020, 023, 024, 028, 029
3+7 only	10	0113, 0114, 0115, 0116, 0117, 0118, 0121, 0131, 0141, 0151, 0161, 0191
4+6 only	10	All 01xxx area codes from 01200 to 01999 not otherwise mentioned.
4+6 areas where part of range is assigned as 5+5	10	01387, 01539
4+6 areas where part of range is assigned as mixed 5+5 and 5+4	10 or 9	01697
Mixed 4+6 and 4+5	10 or 9	01204, 01208, 01254, 01276, 01297, 01298, 01363, 01364, 01384, 01386, 01404, 01420, 01460, 01461, 01480, 01488, 01527, 01562, 01566, 01606, 01629, 01635, 01647, 01659, 01695, 01726, 01744, 01750, 01827, 01837, 01884, 01900, 01905, 01935, 01949, 01963, 01995
Mixed 4+6 and 4+5 areas where part of range is assigned as 5+5	10 or 9	01524, 01768, 01946
5+5 only	10	0138 73, 0152 42, 0153 94, 0153 95, 0153 96, 0169 73, 0169 74, 0176 83, 0176 84, 0176 87, 0194 67
Mixed 5+5 and 5+4	10 or 9	0169 77

The number format '2+8' refers to, e.g. London, numbers using the (020) xxxx xxxx format.

The number format '5+4' refers to, e.g. Brampton, numbers using the (0169 77) xxxx format.

Areas with mandatory area code dialling

In the following areas, the area code must be included when dialling local numbers. This enables local numbers to start with 0 or 1 and was introduced to increase the number of available telephone numbers within these areas.

Area code	Area code name	Date effective
01202	Bournemouth (BO2)	1 November 2012
01224	Aberdeen (AB4)	1 October 2014
01273	Brighton (BR3)	1 October 2014
01274	Bradford (BR4)	1 October 2014
01642	Middlesbrough (MI2)	1 October 2014
01908	Milton Keynes (WO8)	1 October 2014

Overseas Territories

List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom

Unlike the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man which use the UK area codes 01534, 01481 and 01624, respectively, telephone numbers in British Overseas Territories are not part of the UK telephone numbering plan. Some are members of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). These calls are treated as international calls. Below are the access codes for the overseas territories:

North American Numbering Plan

• Anguilla: area code 264 • Bermuda: area code 441 • British Virgin Islands: area code 284 • Cayman Islands: area code 345 • Montserrat: area code 664 • Turks and Caicos Islands: area code 649

Others

• British Antarctic Territory: +44 (shared with the UK) • British Indian Ocean Territory: +246 • Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: +500 • Gibraltar: +350 • Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha: +290

• Ascension Island: +247 • Akrotiri and Dhekelia: +357 (shared with Cyprus) • Pitcairn Islands: +64 (shared with New Zealand)