Pick 206 if the number should read as Seattle.
206 covers Seattle and a handful of places beside it: Shoreline, Mercer Island, Bainbridge Island and Vashon Island.
The area codes for Seattle are 206 and 564.
Area codes in Seattle
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206 has been Seattle’s code since 1947. Since June 10, 2025 a new Seattle number can also start with 564. Bellevue and Tacoma are not Seattle.
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Pick 206 for the code Seattle has always had, or 564 for the newer one over the same streets.
Pick 564 if you want the newer code.
564 has been in service in western Washington since 2017, and it has covered the 206 area since June 10, 2025.
Pick 425 for Bellevue or 253 for Tacoma.
425 and 253 were both split from 206 in 1997. 425 covers Bellevue, Everett and Renton, and 253 covers Tacoma, Kent and Federal Way.
People filed 221 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Seattle area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 221 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 206 and 564. 206 was named most, on 189 of them (86%).
- 221unwanted-call complaints named a Seattle code
- 206was named on the most of them, 189
- 86%of the Seattle complaints named 206
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. 564 was extended over the 206 area on June 10, 2025, so a new number in Seattle may start with either one. For decades before that, 206 stood alone.
No. Bellevue uses 425 and Tacoma uses 253. Both were split from 206 in 1997, and both have their own pages here.
A local call in Seattle 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 221 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Seattle code: 206 (189) and 564 (32). 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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