You may be taking a trip to Mexico and need to know how to call back to your home country, or possibly even place a call to another phone within Mexico. Calling from and within Mexico is easy, you just need to learn something about "exit codes," "country codes" and "trunk codes"--preferably before you leave your home country.
Use "00" to begin making an international phone call from Mexico. This is Mexico's "exit code" for making an international call.
Dial the country code for the country you are calling. For example, you would dial "1" for the U.S. country code, after dialing the "00" exit code from Mexico. Refer to the HowToCallAbroad list of country codes to determine the code for the country you are calling (see link under References).
Dial the area code and phone number.
Dial "01" when calling a long-distance number within Mexico. "01" serves as Mexico's trunk code, a code used to call a long-distance number within a country (for comparison, the trunk code in the U.S. is "1").
Dial the area code. If you do not happen to know the area code for the Mexican phone number you are calling, you can look up Mexican area codes by city with the HowToCallAbroad list of area codes--on the "Mexico" page.
Dial the phone number. Mexican numbers have either seven or eight digits, not including the trunk code and area code.
