East Baton Rouge Parish · Louisiana
Baton Rouge, LA area codes and time zone
Quick answer
Baton Rouge is served by area code 225, keeps CST time (GMT-6), and sits in county FIPS 22033.
- Area code
- 225Within 25 miles of the city centre
- Time zone
- CSTAmerica/Chicago
- UTC offset
- GMT-6CDT in summer (UTCGMT-5)
- County FIPS
- 22033East Baton Rouge Parish
Dialling from and to Baton Rouge
What this means when you pick up the phone.
Local calls inside 225 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 Baton Rouge came to have one area code
Why one city can carry several codes.
Area codes are assigned to geography, then exhausted as demand grows. Baton Rouge — population about 221k — is covered by code 225, 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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