UK area codes
Landline numbers starting with 01 or 02 belong to an area. The area code tells you roughly where the line was set up, but calls can come from anywhere, and caller ID can be faked.
- 020 London
- 028 Northern Ireland
- 029 Cardiff
- 0113 Leeds
- 0114 Sheffield
- 0115 Nottingham
- 0116 Leicester
- 0117 Bristol
- 0118 Reading
- 0121 Birmingham
- 0131 Edinburgh
- 0141 Glasgow
- 0151 Liverpool
- 0161 Manchester
- 0191 Tyneside
- 01204 Bolton
- 01206 Colchester
- 01223 Cambridge
- 01224 Aberdeen
- 01273 Brighton
- 01274 Bradford
- 01302 Doncaster
- 01332 Derby
- 01382 Dundee
- 01392 Exeter
- 01452 Gloucester
- 01473 Ipswich
- 01482 Kingston-upon-Hull
- 01522 Lincoln
- 01536 Kettering
- 01603 Norwich
- 01642 Middlesbrough
- 01733 Peterborough
- 01752 Plymouth
- 01782 Stoke-on-Trent
- 01793 Swindon
- 01865 Oxford
- 01902 Wolverhampton
- 01904 York
- 01908 Milton Keynes
Not a landline?
Numbers starting with 03, 07, 08 or 09 are not linked to an area. See UK number types for what they cost and who uses them.