🇨🇳China Country Code +86

The country calling code for China is +86. Put it in front of the number when you call China from another country, and leave out the 0 that starts numbers inside China.

Dial your country's international access code (or press + on a mobile phone), then 86, then the number without its leading 0. For example, 131 2345 6789 inside China is dialled as +86 131 2345 6789 from abroad.

Only when you call from inside China. The 0 is the trunk prefix, used for calls within the country. From abroad you leave it out: 131 2345 6789 becomes +86 131 2345 6789.

Most phone numbers in China have 7 to 11 digits after the country code: mobile numbers have 11 and landlines 7 to 11. Some special-service numbers (toll-free, premium-rate) are shorter or longer.

To call another country from China, dial 00, then the country code you are calling, then the number. On a mobile phone you can press + instead of 00.

China has 327 area codes, each pointing at a city or region. Examples: 010 for Beijing, 020 for Guangzhou, Guangdong, 021 for Shanghai and 022 for Tianjin.

Number ranges in China were first allocated to networks including China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom and China Broadnet. People can move their number to another network, so the one a number started on may not be the one it uses today.

China is on China Standard Time. A phone number carries no time information, so check the time there before you call.

Yes. Enter any number with +86, or choose China as the country, in the free phone number lookup. It shows the line type (mobile, landline, VoIP, toll-free), the place and network it was issued to, its time zone and every format of the number.