🇬🇧 Regional phone directory

Scotland Area Codes
United Kingdom

This page connects Scotland administrative geography with carefully qualified telephone-code associations. Telephone zones can cross administrative borders, so the two entities are not treated as identical.

Largest featured cities United Kingdom directory

Featured geographic codes0141 / 0131 / 01224

3 cities

City directory

Area Codes for the Largest Cities in Scotland

“Largest” refers to the major-city priority set used for this launch, not a complete population ranking of every settlement.

Featured city and fixed-line code associations in Scotland.
City	Area code	International prefix	Coverage note
Glasgow	0141	+44 141	Administrative context: Glasgow City.
Edinburgh	0131	+44 131	Administrative context: City of Edinburgh.
Aberdeen	01224	+44 1224	Administrative context: Aberdeen City.

How to dial

Calling Scotland

+44+area code+subscriber number

Remove the domestic trunk zero when using +44.

Time-zone context

Local Calling Time

Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) in winter and British Summer Time (UTC+1) in summer

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Entity boundary

Region vs. Telephone Area

UK geographic codes vary in length and represent telephone numbering areas, not administrative borders or live caller locations. Portability, forwarding and internet telephony can separate a number from its original area or network. The +44 arrangement also covers Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, which are Crown Dependencies and not part of the United Kingdom.

A code listed beside a city reflects the featured numbering association; it does not assert that every community in Scotland uses that code or that the code stops at the administrative border.

Directory scope

This launch includes 3 verified or clearly qualified code associations for the featured cities in Scotland.