Orleans Parish · Louisiana
New Orleans, LA area codes and time zone
Quick answer
New Orleans is served by area codes 504, 985, keeps CST time (GMT-6), and sits in county FIPS 22071.
- Area codes
- 504 · 985Within 25 miles of the city centre
- Time zone
- CSTAmerica/Chicago
- UTC offset
- GMT-6CDT in summer (UTCGMT-5)
- County FIPS
- 22071Orleans Parish
Dialling from and to New Orleans
What this means when you pick up the phone.
Because more than one code covers this area, ten-digit dialling applies for local calls: area code plus number, every time. From abroad, dial +1 then the ten digits.
How New Orleans came to have several area codes
Why one city can carry several codes.
Area codes are assigned to geography, then exhausted as demand grows. New Orleans — population about 364k — is covered by codes 504, 985, drawn from within 25 miles of the city centre. Because these 2 codes serve the same footprint, they are overlays: the number pool ran low and a new code was layered on top rather than splitting the city apart. All ten digits are required for every local call.
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