Get a 020 number
for your London business.
A 020 number tells customers in London you are local to them, without an office, a landline or an engineer visit. Auricall sets one up in minutes and puts a full phone system behind it — browser and mobile calling, IVR menus, voicemail transcribed to searchable text, and an AI layer that remembers every conversation.
Dialling code
020
London, Greater London
Number format
020 XXXX XXXX
8 local digits after the code.
Also covers
the City, Westminster, Croydon, Bromley, Barnet and Ealing
London moved from 0171 and 0181 to a single 020 code in 2000, which is why local numbers here are eight digits rather than the usual seven. Numbers beginning 020 7 and 020 8 are the same code, not different ones.
A 020 number is the easy part.
Anyone can sell you a number. What decides whether it is useful is what happens when it rings, and what is left behind once the call ends.
- Buy a 020 number in minutes, or port the one you have for free
- Ring the whole team at once, not a single handset
- IVR menus and time-of-day routing you configure yourself
- Voicemail transcribed into a shared inbox
- Calls recorded and transcribed under your retention settings
- Call from the browser, the mobile app, or a SIP desk phone
- Every call attached to a contact and a timeline
- AI summaries and the commitments made on each call
Incoming · 020 XXXX XXXX
Ringing 3the City
Inside the 020 area
Westminster
Inside the 020 area
Croydon
Inside the 020 area
Bromley
Inside the 020 area
One 020 number, answered by whoever is free — in London or anywhere else.
Customers in London
recognise 020.
Geographic codes stopped meaning a physical line years ago, but they never stopped meaning something to the person dialling. A local code reads as a business that is nearby and reachable — which is why plenty of national companies hold one for every region they sell into.
Local, without an office
Hold a 020 number whether or not you have premises in Greater London. The number is not tied to an address.
Keep it when you move
Because there is no line underneath it, moving offices — or having none — does not cost you the number.
More than one answerer
A 020 number can ring an entire team at once and fall through to a shared voicemail inbox.
About 020 numbers
Yes. Porting a London number to Auricall is free and your number keeps working throughout — nothing is cut over until the port completes. Most UK geographic numbers move within ten working days.
No. UK geographic codes are not tied to a physical line any more, so a business anywhere can hold a 020 number. Plenty of remote and distributed teams use one to give customers in Greater London a local number to call.
As well as London itself, 020 covers the City, Westminster, Croydon, Bromley, Barnet and Ealing. Any number in that area shares the same code.
020 XXXX XXXX — the 020 code followed by 8 local digits. Callers inside the area can usually dial just the local part.
Yes. One number can ring a whole team at once, follow an IVR menu, or route by time of day. Everyone answers from the browser or the Auricall Voice app, and every call lands on the same shared contact record.
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