Reach family in Madrid, a hotel on the Costa del Sol, or your bank in Bilbao, connecting to any Spanish mobile or landline straight from your browser.
Rates updated September 15, 2026
To reach a Spain number from the United States, dial these three parts in order.
011 34 612 34 56 78
From any mobile, anywhere in the world, you can dial +34 612 34 56 78 instead. Press and hold 0 to type the +, and the phone picks the right access code for wherever you are.
Spain numbers carry no leading trunk digit, so there is nothing to strip. 612 34 56 78 is dialed exactly as written, with +34 in front. Removing a digit here is what makes the call fail.
A typical Spain mobile number is 9 digits after +34. If a call does not connect, count the digits first.
Only the first part changes. Your access code replaces the 011, then 34 and the number stay exactly the same.
A ~ means wait for the second dial tone before dialing the rest. It is not a digit you press.
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The heaviest inbound traffic into Spain comes from its own immigrant communities calling home to the country they never fully left. Morocco supplies the single largest foreign nationality (nearly 969,000 residents), so a huge share of calls into Spain are actually Spanish numbers being called back by relatives, alongside the reverse flow to Moroccan lines - INE. Right behind them, Colombians (about 677,000) and Venezuelans (the fastest-growing group in 2024) keep the Latin America corridor busy in both directions, and Romanians (over 609,000) form a dense Bucharest-to-Madrid line - INE. These are family calls, landlord and gestor calls, and calls to consulates, not tourism.
The other great inbound stream is the diaspora and the second-home coast. Spain has 3 million citizens living abroad, the biggest clusters in Argentina (482,000), France (310,000) and the United States (206,000), and they dial back to elderly parents in the pueblos constantly - INE (Spaniards abroad). Layered on top, hundreds of thousands of British, German and Dutch second-home owners on the Costa del Sol, Costa Blanca and the Balearics call Spanish property managers, town halls and clinics, and North American travelers ring Spanish to confirm reservations. US-side volume skews to , where Spanish-speaking households and Spanish emigrant families are concentrated.
From the US, dial the US exit code 011, then Spain's country code 34.
Dial the full 9-digit Spanish number with NO changes: there is no trunk 0 to add or drop.
For a Madrid landline: 011 + 34 + 91 followed by the remaining 7 digits (e.g. 011 34 912 345 678).
For a mobile: 011 + 34 + the 6xx or 7xx number in full (e.g. 011 34 612 345 678).
With InternationalCall.co you skip the exit code: just enter +34 and the 9 digits, or pick Spain and type the number.
Spain uses a closed 9-digit plan with no trunk prefix, so there is nothing to strip: the number you see printed is the number you dial after +34 - Wikipedia. Do NOT add a leading 0 (a habit from other European countries); a Spanish number never takes one. Confirm the number is exactly 9 digits: an 8-digit or 10-digit string is malformed. Mobiles start 6/7, geographic landlines 8/9, and avoid dialing 900/902 (free/premium service lines) from abroad where possible, as some are blocked to non-Spanish networks. The upcoming 400 range is outbound-only commercial numbering, so you will never need to dial one in.
Spain's most disruptive recent change is aimed squarely at the phone spam that made Spaniards distrust unknown numbers. Under Law 10/2025 and the accompanying Order TDF/149/2025, companies were banned from using ordinary mobile 6xx and 7xx numbers for telemarketing and customer service, the exact trick fraudsters used to make a sales or scam call look like a friend's mobile - Bird & Bird. Commercial calls were pushed onto free-to-return 800 and 900 ranges instead, and from 7 June 2025 operators must block international calls that spoof a Spanish caller ID, the classic overseas scam presenting itself as a local 91x or 6xx number - Hiya. The practical effect for you: a legitimate number calling into or out of Spain now matters more, and a Spaniard is now trained to ignore an unfamiliar mobile, so your caller ID and a recognizable pattern help you get answered.
That regime is about to tighten further. A CNMC resolution published in the BOE (BOE-A-2026-8409, 14 April 2026) reserves a brand-new 400 range exclusively for commercial calls, mandatory from October 2026, and the 400 range is outbound-only: incoming calls to a 400 number are prohibited by design so nobody can be tricked into calling one back - . If you ever see a number on an inbound call, treat it as a company campaign, not a person.
A Spanish number is always 9 digits, dialed as one block with no area-code-in-brackets and no trunk 0. The country abolished the old trunk prefix on 1 December 1998, folding the leading 9 permanently into the subscriber number, which is why you never drop or add a digit when calling from abroad - Wikipedia. The written convention groups them as 3-3-3 for mobiles (612 345 678) and 2-3-2-2 or 3-2-2-2 for landlines (91 234 56 78), but the digits are identical either way.
The first two digits carry the geography. Madrid landlines run 910 to 918, Barcelona 930 to 938, Valencia 960 to 963, Seville and Malaga share the 95x Andalusia block, and Bilbao sits on 94x - Wikipedia. Smaller provinces get a three-digit code: 976 Zaragoza, 968 Murcia, 958 Granada, 971 for all of the Balearic Islands (Palma, Ibiza, Menorca), 928 Las Palmas and 922 Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canaries. Because a 91 or 93 start is unmistakably a fixed line in Madrid or Barcelona, you can often tell where a landline physically sits before you dial it, something the mobile 6/7 numbers no longer reveal.
The split is clean: 6 or 7 = mobile, 8 or 9 = landline. Spain opened the 7xx mobile range in October 2009 to add up to 80 million new numbers when the 6xx blocks filled, so a number starting 71, 72, 73 or 74 is simply a newer cell line, not a special service - Wikipedia. One catch worth remembering: in the 7yx format the second digit y is 1 to 9, never 0, which distinguishes real mobiles from the 70x personal-numbering and other service ranges.
For reaching a person, mobiles are almost always the better bet in Spain. Household landlines are increasingly cordless-and-ignored or tied to a router, while a Spaniard's 6xx/7xx rings in their pocket. WhatsApp voice is culturally dominant for casual chat, but a real phone call to a mobile still reaches doctors, tradespeople, older relatives and anyone who has not saved your number. If you only have a landline (a 91x office, a 971 hotel), it works fine, just expect business-hours reachability rather than round-the-clock.
Spanish institutions lean on short and special numbers you should recognize. Emergencies are 112, the nationwide EU number, and the gender-violence helpline is 016 - Wikipedia. Government information lines cluster on 010 (town-hall level), 012 (regional government) and 060 (central-government citizen line). These are dialable inside Spain but generally not reachable from a foreign line, so for anything official from abroad you want the institution's full 9-digit geographic number or its 900 freephone.
Banks, utilities and airlines historically routed you to a premium 902 line, and Spaniards still grumble about it. Since the 2022 reform every such company must also publish a non-premium alternative (a normal 9-digit line or a free 900), so when you are calling BBVA, Santander, Endesa, Movistar or Iberia from overseas, look for the 900 or geographic number rather than the 902 - Comunidad de Madrid. Freephone 800/900 numbers are toll-free for the caller inside Spain but behave as ordinary international calls when dialed from abroad, and some are geo-blocked to Spanish networks entirely, so a direct 9-digit office or branch number is usually the most reliable way in from the US.
After years of relentless llamadas comerciales, Spaniards have become quick to reject unknown numbers, and the 2025 rules reinforced that instinct. Because telemarketers were forced off mobile ranges and onto 800/900 (and soon the 400 range) - Sinologic, an incoming call from a normal-looking 6xx mobile or a familiar 91x landline now reads as more likely to be a real person. The mandatory blocking of spoofed Spanish caller ID on international calls from June 2025 also means fewer fake-local scams, but it can make some legitimate foreign-originated calls look unfamiliar - Hiya.
Practically, the person you are calling in Spain sees an inbound international call and, if they do not have your number saved, may let it ring once before deciding. A quick WhatsApp heads-up (Spain is a WhatsApp-first culture) that you are about to call dramatically raises pickup rates, especially with older relatives who have been told to distrust unknown numbers. There is no ID-you-must-register step to call a Spanish number from abroad, only the local social reality that unexpected calls get screened.
Spain is not one uniform dial. The Canary Islands (codes 928 Las Palmas, 922 Tenerife) sit on WET (UTC+0), a full hour behind the mainland, so a call that is lunchtime in Madrid is still late morning in Tenerife - plan the offset when reaching Gran Canaria or Fuerteventura family - Wikipedia. The Balearics (all on 971) keep mainland CET despite being islands.
The Mediterranean coast is where non-Spanish callers cluster: the Costa del Sol (Malaga 951/952), the Costa Blanca (Alicante on the 96x Valencia-region block) and the Balearics are full of foreign-owned second homes, so a lot of "calling Spain" is really calling a British or German owner's Spanish property manager, community administrator (the administrador de fincas) or local clinic. In the Basque Country, Galicia and Catalonia the person may answer in Euskara, Galician or Catalan before switching to Spanish, and business hours everywhere still bend around a long lunch (roughly 2pm to 4pm/5pm) when offices and many landlines go quiet, so aim for late morning or the evening stretch.
Exactly 9 digits, for both mobiles and landlines, dialed as a single block after the country code with no trunk 0 - Wikipedia. If someone gives you 8 or 10 digits, something is missing or extra.
No. Spain abolished its trunk 0 in 1998 and baked the leading 9 into every number, so unlike the UK, France or Germany there is no 0 to drop or add - Wikipedia. You dial +34 and then the full 9 digits exactly as written.
Look at the first digit: 6 or 7 is a mobile, 8 or 9 is a landline, and a landline's first two digits show the province (91 Madrid, 93 Barcelona) - Wikipedia. Mobiles are usually the better bet for reaching a person directly.
The 902 range is a caller-pays service number that banks and utilities overused. Since a 2022 reform, companies must also offer a normal or free alternative, so from abroad look for the 900 freephone or the plain 9-digit line instead - Comunidad de Madrid.
The 400 range is a new Spanish numbering block reserved exclusively for outbound commercial calls, becoming mandatory from October 2026, and it is deliberately not reachable inbound: you cannot call a 400 number back, by design, to prevent fraud - Sinologic.
Spain now blocks international calls that fake a Spanish caller ID and has pushed telemarketers off mobile ranges, so Spaniards screen unknown numbers heavily - Hiya. A genuine call goes through fine; a quick WhatsApp beforehand (Spain is WhatsApp-first) helps an unsaved number get answered, especially with older relatives.
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Start callingFrom inside Spain the international access code is 00, so a Spaniard dialing out replaces the leading + with 00 (00 34 is redundant for Spain itself, but 00 351 reaches Portugal, 00 33 France) - Wikipedia. The biggest outbound corridors mirror the immigrant map: calls to Morocco (+212), Colombia (+57), Ecuador (+593), Romania (+40) and Venezuela (+58) dominate the residential international minutes, which is exactly why Spain's operators built cheap Latin America and Maghreb bundles.
The second outbound pattern is intra-EU and business: France, Germany, Portugal, Italy and the UK for cross-border work, family and the returning-emigrant flow. Note one quirk that trips people up: within Spain there is no trunk 0 to add, so a caller who learned to dial internationally with 00 sometimes wrongly prepends a 0 to a domestic Spanish number, which fails. Domestically you dial the full 9 digits and nothing else; only genuinely international calls take the 00.
Separately, customer service lines are a known pain point. Spain long overused the special 902 range (caller pays a premium) as the only way to reach a bank, utility or airline, and the 2022 consumer-protection reform forced companies to also offer a normal geographic or free alternative rather than trapping callers on 902 - Comunidad de Madrid. When you need a Spanish bank, insurer or telco, hunt for the 900 freephone or the plain 9-digit geographic line rather than a 901/902 number. Finally, number portability is heavy in Spain: mobiles move between Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, Yoigo and MasMovil freely, so the 6/7 prefix no longer tells you the carrier, only that it is a mobile.