Calling Instructions for making long-distance overseas phone calls to Barbados from overseas:

1) Discover the lowest telephone call rate for Barbados, from the Telephone Call Charges Sheet.

2) Dial the International Dial out code of your country (eg: from UK - 00)

    00 + 1 246 + City Area Code + Local number

If you want to make a phone call from Barbados you will have to dial barbados-exit-code (eg: barbados-exit-code 44 for UK).

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The present date and time in Bridgetown, Barbados can be found at Time in Bridgetown.

Barbados’s standard time is -4 Hours away from Greenwich Mean Time/ UTC.

Barbados does not utilise Daylight Time Saving.

Telephone area codes in Barbados are usually referred to as Numbering Plan Areas (NPAs). It was previously referred to as STD codes in Barbados.

These phone area codes are essential only if calling from outside the telephone code area. But it is important when making a telephone calls from the mobile phones.

Phone area codes or city codes in Barbados typically suggest geographical areas within Barbados that are covered by hundreds of telephone exchanges.

The telephone area code in Barbados is commonly preceded in the dial string by the Barbadian country code or the international access code for Barbados ("1 246").

Phone Area codes in Barbados are sometimes quoted along with the country access code for Barbados.