Richmond City · Virginia
Richmond, VA area codes and time zone
Quick answer
Richmond is served by area codes 276, 804, keeps EST time (GMT-5), and sits in county FIPS 51760.
- Area codes
- 276 · 804Within 25 miles of the city centre
- Time zone
- ESTAmerica/New_York
- UTC offset
- GMT-5EDT in summer (UTCGMT-4)
- County FIPS
- 51760Richmond City
Dialling from and to Richmond
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 Richmond came to have several area codes
Why one city can carry several codes.
Area codes are assigned to geography, then exhausted as demand grows. Richmond — population about 229k — is covered by codes 276, 804, 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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