How to call Germany from the USA & Canada:

011 - 49 - phone number

* Use also to TEXT German numbers. ** 01149 and +49 often work interchangeably from cell phones.

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Calling Germany explained:

  • 011 - international prefix; dial first when calling abroad from the US or Canada
  • 49 - Country Code for Germany
  • Phone Number (remove initial 0):
    • fixed - 5 to 11 digits, including area code
    • cell phones - 10 or 11 digits
  • example call from the United States or from Canada to a landline in Frankfurt: 011 49 69 ???? ????

Cell phone numbers:

  • geographic area codes not needed to reach German cell phones
  • dialing format valid for calls and text messages: 011 49 1X ???? ????(?)
  • 1X can be 15, 16 or 17

Area codes:

Add to landline numbers only!
Aachen 241 Halle (Saale) 345 Mulheim an der Ruhr 208
Augsburg 821 Hamburg 40 Munich 89
Bergisch Gladbach 2202 Hamm Westfalen ** 2381 Munster ** 251
Berlin 30 Hanau 6181 Neuss ** 2131
Bielefeld 521 Hannover 511 Nuremberg 911
Bochum 234 Heidelberg 6221 Oberhausen Rheinland 208
Bonn 228 Heilbronn Neckar 7131 Ochsenhausen 7352
Bottrop 2041 Herne 2323 Oldenburg 441
Brandenburg an der Havel 3381 Hildesheim 5121 Osnabruck 541
Braunschweig ** 531 Ingolstadt ** 841 Paderborn ** 5251
Bremen 421 Iserlohn ** 2371 Pforzheim 7231
Bremerhaven 471 Jena 3641 Potsdam 331
Chemnitz 371 Kaiserslautern 631 Ratingen 2102
Cottbus 355 Karlsruhe 721 Recklinghausen 2361
Darmstadt 6151 Kassel 561 Regensburg 941
Dessau 340 Kiel 431 Remscheid 2191
Dortmund 231 Koblenz am Rhein 261 Reutlingen 7121
Dresden 351 Koln (Cologne) 221 Rostock 381
Duisburg ** 203 Konstanz 7531 Saarbrucken ** 681
Duren 2421 Krefeld 2151 Salzgitter ** 5341
Dusseldorf 211 Leipzig 341 Schwerin 385
Erfurt 361 Leverkusen ** 214 Siegen 271
Erlangen 9131 Lubeck ** 451 Solingen 212
Essen 201 Ludwigsburg 7141 Stuttgart 711
Esslingen am Neckar 711 Ludwigshafen am Rhein 621 Trier 651
Flensburg 461 Lunen 2306 Tubingen 7071
Frankfurt 69 Magdeburg 391 Ulm Donau 731
Freiburg ** 761 Mainz 6131 Velbert ** 2051
Fremdingen 9086 Mannheim 621 Wiesbaden 611
Gelsenkirchen 209 Marburg 6421 Witten 2302
Gera 365 Marl 2365 Wolfsburg ** 5361
Gottingen 551 Minden Westfalen 571 Wuppertal 202
Gutersloh ** 5241 Moers 2841 Wurzburg 931
Hagen Westfalen ** 2331 Monchengladbach ** 2161 Zwickau 375
**Some suburban areas of these cities use different area codes.

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