Dialling Rules

Calling rules to, from and within Mexico can be tricky, here’s a simple guide.

Call Mexico from the US & Canada

To call a landline, dial 011-52-(10 digits phone number)
To call a cellular, dial 011-52-1-(10 digits cellphone number)

Area codes are two or three digits.

Calling in Mexico

To call a local landline: Dial the 8 digits phone number
To call a local cellphone from a landline: 044-(10 digits cellphone number)
To call a local cellphone from a cellphone: (10 digits cellphone number)
To make a long distance call to a land line: 01-(10 digits phone number)
To make a long distance call to a cellphone: 045-(10 digits cellphone number)

Call US & Canada from Mexico

Dial (001)-(Area Code)-(7 digits number)

Call a 1-800 number from Mexico

For a 1-800 number, dial 001-880-(7 digits number)
For a 1-888 number, dial 001-881-(7 digits number)
For a 1-877 number, dial 001-882-(7 digits number)
For a 1-866 number, dial 001-881-(7 digits number)

To send text messages from Mexico

To Mexico: You send the SMS to the 10 digits cellphone number
To US/Canada: You must add 001 before the 10 digits cellphone number

To send text messages from US & Canada to Mexico

You send the SMS to +52-1-(10 digits cellphone number)

Common area codes in Mexico

Acapulco	744	Guadalupe	81	Reynosa	899
Aguascalientes	449	Guanajuato	473	Rosarito Beach	661
Apodaca	81	Hermosillo	662	Salamanca	464
Cabo San Lucas	624	Irapuato	462	Saltillo	844
Campeche	981	Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo	755	San Luis Potosi	444
Cancun	998	Ixtapaluca	55	San Nicolas de los Garza	81
Celaya	461	Jiutepec	777	Tampico	833
Chihuahua	614	La Paz	612	Tapachula	962
Chimalhuacan	55	Leon	477	Tecate	665
Cihuatlan	315	Los Mochis	668	Tepic	311
Ciudad Jimenez	629	Manzanillo	314	Tijuana	664
Ciudad Juarez	656	Matamoros	868	Tlalnepantla de Baz	55
Ciudad Lopez Mateos	55	Mazatlan	669	Tlaquepaque	33
Ciudad Obregon	644	Mexicali	686	Tlaxcala	246
Ciudad Victoria	834	Mexico City	55	Toluca	722
Coatzacoalcos	921	Merida	999	Tonala	33
Colima	312	Monclova	866	Torreon	871
Comitan	963	Monterrey	81	Tulum	984
Cordoba	271	Morelia	443	Tuxtla Gutierrez	961
Cuautitlan Izcalli	55	Naucalpan	55	Uruapan	452
Cuernavaca	777	Nezahualcoyotl	55	Valparaiso	457
Culiacan	667	Nuevo Laredo	867	Veracruz	229
Durango	618	Oaxaca	951	Villahermosa	993
Ecatepec	55	Pachuca	771	Xalapa-Enriquez	228
Ensenada	646	Playa del Carmen	984	Zacatecas	492
General Escobedo	81	Puebla	222	Zamora	351
Gomez Palacio	871	Puerto Vallarta	322	Zapopan	33
Guadalajara	33	Queretaro	442	Zitacuaro	715