Pick 602 if the number should read as Phoenix.
602 is an original code of 1947. 520, 480 and 623 were all split from it, in 1995 and 1999.
Arizona has five area codes: 602, 520, 480, 623 and 928.
Area codes in Arizona
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602, 480 and 623 cover the Phoenix area together, 520 covers Tucson and southern Arizona, and 928 covers everything else, from Yuma and Flagstaff to Lake Havasu City.
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Arizona has five area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 602Since 1947Phoenix
166 FCC complaints
Get a 602 number - 520Since 1995Tucson and southern Arizona
257 FCC complaints
Get a 520 number - 480Since 1999Phoenix, Mesa and Scottsdale
328 FCC complaints
Get a 480 number - 623Since 1999Glendale and the West Valley of Phoenix
85 FCC complaints
Get a 623 number - 928Since 2001Arizona outside Phoenix and Tucson
236 FCC complaints
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928
The newest area code in Arizona is 928.
928 entered service in 2001, split from 520, and covers Arizona outside Phoenix and Tucson, from Yuma and Flagstaff to Prescott.
Pick 602 or 480 for Phoenix, 520 for Tucson or 928 for the rest of Arizona.
Pick 480 for Mesa, Scottsdale, Chandler or Gilbert.
480 and 623 both entered service on March 1, 1999, cut from 602.
Pick 623 for Glendale, Peoria or Surprise.
623 covers the West Valley of Phoenix, with Avondale and Buckeye too.
People filed 1,072 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Arizona area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 1,072 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Arizona codes. 480 was named most, on 328 of them (31%).
- 1,072unwanted-call complaints named an Arizona code
- 480was named on the most of them, 328
- 31%of the Arizona complaints named 480
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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Three: 602, 480 and 623. 480 reaches Mesa and Scottsdale, and 623 reaches Glendale and the West Valley.
928, the code of Arizona outside Phoenix and Tucson. It also covers Yuma, Flagstaff, Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City.
Arizona has five area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 602, 520, 480, 623 and 928. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2001.
The newest area code in Arizona is 928, in service since 2001. 928 entered service in 2001, split from 520, and covers Arizona outside Phoenix and Tucson, from Yuma and Flagstaff to Prescott.
A local call in Arizona is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its five codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 1,072 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with an Arizona code. The codes named were 480 (328), 520 (257), 928 (236), 602 (166) and 623 (85). A complaint is one person's report. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
Yes. You type the area code you want when you create a number, and you do not need to live in Arizona. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
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Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.
The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database (its report of October 23, 2026), and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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