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California has 41 area codes: 213, 415, 916, 714, 805, 209, 408, 707, 619, 818, 510, 310, 909, 562, 760, 626, 650, 530, 925, 949, 323, 831, 559, 661, 858, 951, 424, 657, 747, 442, 669, 628, 279, 820, 341, 840, 350, 369, 738, 837 and 357.

Area codes in California

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213 is downtown Los Angeles, 415 is San Francisco, 619 is San Diego and 916 is Sacramento, and each of these now shares its area with a second code. 805 covers Santa Barbara and Ventura, and 559 covers Fresno.

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California has 41 area codes.

In the order they opened.

357

The newest area code in California is 357.

357 entered service in 2025, laid over the 559 area around Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley.

Pick 213 for Los Angeles, 415 for San Francisco, 619 for San Diego or 916 for Sacramento.

Pick 310, 818 or 626 for the rest of Los Angeles County.

310 covers Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, 818 covers the San Fernando Valley, and 626 covers the San Gabriel Valley with Pasadena and Arcadia.

Pick 408, 650, 510 or 925 for the Bay Area around San Francisco.

408 is San Jose, 650 is San Mateo County and Palo Alto, 510 is Oakland and the East Bay, and 925 is Concord, Walnut Creek and Livermore.

Pick 714 or 949 for Orange County, or 951 for Riverside.

714 is north Orange County and 949 is south Orange County, with Irvine and Newport Beach. 951 covers Riverside, Corona and Temecula.

People filed 3,963 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from California area codes in 12 months.

From October 2025 to September 2026, 3,963 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the California codes. 213 was named most, on 262 of them (7%).

  • 3,963unwanted-call complaints named a California code
  • 213was named on the most of them, 262
  • 7%of the California complaints named 213

California codes

How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each of the 10 California codes named most.

  1. 1213Downtown Los Angeles262
  2. 2916Sacramento259
  3. 3310Santa Monica and Beverly Hills257
  4. 4949South Orange County196
  5. 5415San Francisco174
  6. 6805Santa Barbara and Ventura163
  7. 7760North San Diego County and the desert159
  8. 8562No page yet157
  9. 9707Sonoma and Napa counties143
  10. 10818San Fernando Valley142

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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People ask these questions about California area codes.

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Most of the big ones do: 213, 323 and 738 in Los Angeles, 408 and 669 in San Jose, 415 and 628 in San Francisco, 510 and 341 in Oakland, and 916 and 279 in Sacramento.

530 covers Chico and Redding, 559 covers Fresno, 661 covers Bakersfield and Lancaster, 707 covers Sonoma and Napa counties, and 805 covers Santa Barbara and Ventura.

California has 41 area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 213, 415, 916, 714, 805, 209, 408, 707, 619, 818, 510, 310, 909, 562, 760, 626, 650, 530, 925, 949, 323, 831, 559, 661, 858, 951, 424, 657, 747, 442, 669, 628, 279, 820, 341, 840, 350, 369, 738, 837 and 357. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2025.

The newest area code in California is 357, in service since 2025. 357 entered service in 2025, laid over the 559 area around Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley.

From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 3,963 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a California code. The five named most were 213 (262), 916 (259), 310 (257), 949 (196) and 415 (174). 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.

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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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