Kern County · California
Bakersfield, CA area codes and time zone
Quick answer
Bakersfield is served by area code 661, keeps PST time (GMT-8), and sits in county FIPS 06029.
- Area code
- 661Within 25 miles of the city centre
- Time zone
- PSTAmerica/Los_Angeles
- UTC offset
- GMT-8PDT in summer (UTCGMT-7)
- County FIPS
- 06029Kern County
Dialling from and to Bakersfield
What this means when you pick up the phone.
Local calls inside 661 may still work on seven digits, but ten-digit dialling is the safe default everywhere in the country now. From abroad, dial +1 then the ten digits.
How Bakersfield came to have one area code
Why one city can carry several codes.
Area codes are assigned to geography, then exhausted as demand grows. Bakersfield — population about 408k — is covered by code 661, drawn from within 25 miles of the city centre. A single code still has enough numbers for the area, so no overlay has been needed yet. When growth exhausts it, regulators will layer on a new code and local calls will move to ten digits.
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