Country Dialing Guide

Ireland country code +353 — call Ireland & get a number.

With millions of Irish family and customers spread across the US and UK, +353 is one of the world's most-dialed homeward codes. Get the format exactly right from America, Britain and Europe, find every area code and 08x mobile prefix, check live time and weather — and see how a business plants its own Irish virtual number with MCM.

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🇮🇪 Ireland · LiveEurope/Dublin
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Dublin
Cork
Limerick
+353
Country code
00
Exit code
5.45 m
People
5.45 m
Population
~5.5 million+ (mobile subscriptions)
Active SIMs
3
Mobile operators
+353
Country code
01At a glance

Ireland at a glance

The numbers and facts you need before you dial.

Country name
Ireland (Éire) / Republic of Ireland
Country code
+353
ISO codes
IE / IRL / 372
Exit code (from Ireland)
00
Trunk prefix (within)
0 (drop when dialing internationally)
Capital
Dublin
Largest city
Dublin
Population
~5.45 million (April 2025, CSO)
Currency
Euro (EUR, €)
Time zone
GMT (UTC+0) / IST (UTC+1) in summer
Regulator
ComReg (Commission for Communications Regulation)
Active SIMs
~5.5 million+ (mobile subscriptions)
02The basics

What is the country code for Ireland?

+353 is the code that carries you to the Republic of Ireland — and, for a diaspora scattered across Boston, London and beyond, the one most often dialed to call home. From abroad it's your exit code, then 353, then the national number with its leading trunk 0 lifted off. Inside the country that 0 stays put — Dubliners dial 01, the rest of Ireland its own 0-prefixed code.

In international (E.164) form an Irish number is +353 1 XXX XXXX for Dublin or +353 87 XXX XXXX for a mobile — the domestic trunk 0 always dropped once +353 is in front.

+35300353011 35300 353

All four mean the same thing — they connect your call to Ireland.

03Dialing format

How to call Ireland from anywhere

Three moves, in order — strip the Irish number's leading 0, put 353 in front, then lead with your own country's exit code. Do that from Chicago or Manchester and Dublin rings clean.

COUNTRY
+353
·
AREA
01
·
SUBSCRIBER
XXX XXXX

Full example: +353 01 XXX XXXX — drop the local leading 0 when calling from abroad.

United States & Canada
exit 011
011 + 353 + area code + number
011 353 01 XXXXXXX
United Kingdom
exit 00
00 + 353 + area code + number
00 353 01 XXXXXXX
Europe
exit 00
00 + 353 + area code + number
00 353 01 XXXXXXX
Australia
exit 0011
0011 + 353 + area code + number
0011 353 01 XXXXXXX
04Number format

Ireland phone number format explained

Irish numbers don't all run to the same length — domestically the trunk 0 plus area code plus subscriber usually totals 9 to 10 digits. The area code itself flexes from one digit to three: Dublin is the short 01, while the rest of the country sits across 02x/04x/05x/06x/07x/09x.

Landline

0 + area code + number, e.g. 01 XXX XXXX in Dublin → +353 1 XXX XXXX abroad.

Mobile

08x XXX XXXX, e.g. 087 XXX XXXX → +353 87 XXX XXXX internationally. The mobile prefixes are 083, 085, 086, 087 and 089. Ireland has had full number portability since 2003, so the prefix no longer reliably tells you the network — handy to know when a relative swaps SIMs but keeps the number.

05Area codes

Ireland area codes — major cities

Drop the local leading 0 when calling from abroad.

// Full directory10 entries
CityRégionArea code
DublinLeinster01
CorkMunster021
LimerickMunster061
GalwayConnacht091
WaterfordMunster051
KilkennyLeinster056
SligoConnacht071
WexfordLeinster053
DundalkLeinster042
Killarney / TraleeMunster (Kerry)064066
06Mobile networks

Ireland mobile network prefixes

The prefix after +353 tells you which network issued the SIM — though number portability means it no longer guarantees the operator.

VI

Vodafone Ireland

+353 primarily the 087 range.

TI

Three Ireland (Hutchison)

+353 primarily 083, 085, 086 and 089.

E

eir (formerly Meteor)

+353 primarily 085 and 086.

07Time zone

Ireland time zone

Ireland keeps Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, UTC+0) through winter and shifts to Irish Standard Time (IST, UTC+1) for summer, with the clocks turning on the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October — exactly in step with Britain, so Dublin and London stay locked to the same hour all year. For the US diaspora that's the figure to watch: Ireland sits five hours ahead of New York in winter.

London
12:00 (same)
New York
07:00
Los Angeles
04:00
Berlin / Paris
13:00
Sydney
23:00
Best call windows

13:00–17:00 Dublin catches the US East Coast as its morning gets going — the prime slot for ringing family in Boston or New York; earlier in the day overlaps with mainland Europe and the close of the Asian working day.

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09Avoid these

Common mistakes when calling Ireland

Almost every failed international call is a formatting issue, not a network issue.

Treating the whole island as one country code

it isn't. The Republic of Ireland is +353, but Northern Ireland (Belfast, Derry) is part of the UK on +44. A Belfast number dialed as +353 will fail; check which Ireland you mean before you press call.

Leaving the trunk 0 on after +353

drop it. It's +353 1… for Dublin, not +353 01…; the 0 is for dialing inside the Republic only.

Reading the carrier off a mobile prefix

full portability since 2003 means 087 or 086 no longer pins down Vodafone, Three or eir.

Trying a 7-digit shortcut to Dublin from abroad

always keep the area code, so it's +353 1 then the subscriber number.

Dialing 911 in an emergency

that's the US number; in Ireland use 112 or 999.

10Save money

Tips to reduce the cost of calling Ireland

Route Irish calls over VoIP or a virtual +353 number rather than paying carrier international rates from the US or UK.

If you're dialing from inside the EU, lean on free roaming and intra-EU call caps before reaching for an add-on.

Keep family catch-ups on Wi-Fi calling or apps and save PSTN minutes for the calls that need them.

For business, host an Irish DID so customers reach you at a local rate instead of an overseas tariff.

11For business

Why businesses get a Ireland virtual number

A Dublin 01 or an 08x mobile signals an established, on-the-ground Irish business — the kind of presence diaspora-facing brands and EU-entry companies need, even when the team sits in New York or London.

Higher answer rates

Irish callers pick up a familiar local number over a foreign one.

Lower trust friction

a +353 caller ID reads as home, not as an overseas cold call.

Cheaper inbound

customers reach you at local rates rather than international ones.

Centralized routing

funnel every Irish call to whichever team should take it.

Faster expansion

open an Irish presence — and an EU foothold — without an office.

Real PSTN presence

a genuine Irish DID, geographic or mobile, not a forward.

MCMPlatform

Ireland virtual numbers with My Country Mobile

Stand up real Irish geographic and mobile DIDs — Dublin or regional — on carrier-grade voice with full API control.

Local DIDs in major area codes — provisioned in minutes

Call forwarding to any mobile, landline, SIP endpoint, or softphone worldwide

HD voice with G.711, G.729, Opus & AMR-WB — auto-negotiated per call

Sub-150ms latency on major voice corridors via distributed PoPs

SLA de disponibilité de 99,99 % soutenu par une infrastructure géo-redondante et un basculement sub-2s

Prise en charge WebRTC pour les appels basés sur un navigateur sans installation de softphone

API REST pour l'approvisionnement, le routage et les enregistrements détaillés des appels (CDR)

Protection intégrée contre la fraude avec détection des anomalies IA et STIR/SHAKEN

Surveillance du réseau 24h/24 et 7j/7 et assistance dédiée

12Commencer

How to get your Ireland virtual number

La plupart des entreprises sont opérationnelles en quelques heures, et non en quelques jours.

1

Choose your Irish number — Dublin 01, a regional code, or an 08x mobile.

2

Pick a plan and complete KYC.

3

Configure routing and forwarding to your team.

4

Go live and start taking Irish calls.

13Pays liés

Guides de numérotation pour d'autres pays

Plus de codes de pays qui méritent d’être ajoutés à vos favoris.

Obtenez un numéro virtuel d'Irlande avec MCM

Prenez une ligne mobile de Dublin ou d'Irlande et atteignez les clients – et la famille de la diaspora restée au pays – sur un certain nombre de fiducies irlandaises.

FAQ

Irlande +353 — FAQ

L'Irlande du Nord est-elle également au +353 ?expand_more

— Non. La République d'Irlande est au +353; L'Irlande du Nord fait partie du Royaume-Uni et utilise le +44. Les numéros de Belfast et de Derry ne seront pas connectés si vous les composez au +353.

Comment appeler l'Irlande depuis les États-Unis pour appeler ma famille ?expand_more

— Composez le 011, puis le 353, puis le numéro irlandais sans le 0 initial — par exemple 011 353 87 XXX XXXX pour un mobile.

Dois-je conserver le 0 écrit sur une carte de visite irlandaise ?expand_more

— Uniquement lorsque vous appelez en Irlande. Depuis l'étranger vous le déposez : +353 1… pour Dublin, pas +353 01….

Quelle est la meilleure période pour appeler l'Irlande depuis la côte est des États-Unis ?expand_more

— Du début au milieu de l'après-midi à Dublin (vers 13h00-17h00) atterrit le matin des États-Unis, l'Irlande ayant cinq heures d'avance sur New York en hiver.

Puis-je savoir sur quel réseau se trouve un mobile irlandais grâce à son préfixe ?expand_more

— Pas fiable. Depuis l'arrivée de la portabilité en 2003, un numéro 086 ou 087 peut avoir été transféré entre Vodafone, Three et eir.

Quels préfixes mobiles sont irlandais ?expand_more

- 083, 085, 086, 087 et 089 - devenant tous +353 8x une fois le tronc 0 retiré.

Quel numéro appeler en cas d'urgence en Irlande ?expand_more

— 112 ou 999 ; les deux fonctionnent. Le 911 américain ne le fait pas.

Mon entreprise peut-elle avoir un numéro irlandais sans bureau en Irlande ?expand_more

— Oui — MCM fournit à distance les DID irlandais Dublin, régionaux et mobiles et les achemine vers votre équipe n'importe où.