Pick 305 if you want the code Miami started with.
305 dates from 1947 and covers Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. 407 and 954 were split from it in 1988 and 1995.
The area codes for Miami are 305, 786 and 645.
305 is the original Miami code. 786 and 645 are laid over the same area, Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys.
305 dates from 1947 and covers Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys. 407 and 954 were split from it in 1988 and 1995.
786 entered service in 1998 and covers the same area as 305, down to the last street.
954 covers Broward County, with Fort Lauderdale at its center, and 754 is laid over it. Miami itself is 305.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 468 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 786, 305 and 645. 786 was named most, on 205 of them (44%).
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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No. 954 is Broward County, with Fort Lauderdale at its center. Miami and the Keys use 305, 786 and 645.
The Keys are in the same area as Miami, so they use 305, 786 and 645.
A local call in Miami is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 468 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Miami code: 786 (205), 305 (174) and 645 (89). 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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