Bernalillo County · New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM area codes and time zone
Quick answer
Albuquerque is served by area code 505, keeps MST time (GMT-7), and sits in county FIPS 35001.
- Area code
- 505Within 25 miles of the city centre
- Time zone
- MSTAmerica/Denver
- UTC offset
- GMT-7MDT in summer (UTCGMT-6)
- County FIPS
- 35001Bernalillo County
Dialling from and to Albuquerque
What this means when you pick up the phone.
Local calls inside 505 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 Albuquerque came to have one area code
Why one city can carry several codes.
Area codes are assigned to geography, then exhausted as demand grows. Albuquerque — population about 560k — is covered by code 505, 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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