Sedgwick County · Kansas
Wichita, KS area codes and time zone
Quick answer
Wichita is served by area code 316, keeps CST time (GMT-6), and sits in county FIPS 20173.
- Area code
- 316Within 25 miles of the city centre
- Time zone
- CSTAmerica/Chicago
- UTC offset
- GMT-6CDT in summer (UTCGMT-5)
- County FIPS
- 20173Sedgwick County
Dialling from and to Wichita
What this means when you pick up the phone.
Local calls inside 316 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 Wichita came to have one area code
Why one city can carry several codes.
Area codes are assigned to geography, then exhausted as demand grows. Wichita — population about 398k — is covered by code 316, 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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