Pick 408 if the number should read as San Jose.
408 was split from 415 in 1959. It serves San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Campbell and Los Gatos, among others.
The area codes for San Jose are 408 and 669.
Area codes in San Jose
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San Jose is covered by 408, which dates from 1959, and by 669, laid over it in 2012. Both codes reach the whole city and most of Santa Clara County.
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Pick 408 for the older code of San Jose, or 669 if you want the newer one.
Pick 669 if you want the second code of the same area.
669 entered service on November 20, 2012, a month after ten-digit dialing became mandatory for local calls. It covers the same cities as 408.
Pick 650 if your customers are north on the peninsula.
650 serves San Mateo County, Palo Alto and Mountain View. A small part of Palo Alto is in 408, and the rest is in 650.
People filed 129 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from San Jose area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 129 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 408 and 669. 408 was named most, on 89 of them (69%).
- 129unwanted-call complaints named a San Jose code
- 408was named on the most of them, 89
- 69%of the San Jose complaints named 408
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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San Jose was part of 415, the San Francisco code, until 408 was split from it in 1959.
A second code, 669, was laid over 408 so that new numbers could be given out without changing old ones. The California Public Utilities Commission approved it on October 20, 2011.
A local call in San Jose is dialed with 1 plus 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 129 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a San Jose code: 408 (89) and 669 (40). 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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The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database, and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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