Swedish phone number lookup (+46)

Unknown calls from Sweden

Sweden is a cashless, app-driven society where BankID and Swish are used for almost everything, and phone fraud has adapted to that. A large share of scam calls aim to trick people into signing in with BankID or approving a Swish payment for a stranger. Callers often pose as bank staff, the police or a mobile operator, and spoofed Swedish numbers are common. Newcomers who have just received a personnummer, students in Uppsala or Lund, and workers relocating to Stockholm get calls from employers, landlords and agencies too, so checking an 070, 072 or 010 number before trusting the caller is a sensible habit.

Sweden phone numbers at a glance

Country calling code

+46

Trunk prefix

0

Number format

Swedish numbers start with 0 and an area code of one to three digits (08 Stockholm, 031 Gothenburg, 040 Malmö), with total length varying. Mobile numbers start with 07 and have ten digits nationally.

Example (national)

08-123 456 78

Example (international)

+46 8 123 456 78

Emergency number

112 (emergencies), 114 14 (police non-emergency), 1177 (healthcare advice)

Telecom regulator

Post- och telestyrelsen (PTS)

To call a Swedish number from abroad, drop the leading 0 and dial +46 first: 08-123 456 78 becomes +46 8 123 456 78. A missed call showing +46 at the start came from a Sweden number.

How to tell what kind of Swedish number called you

Mobile networks in Sweden

Numbers can be ported between networks, so the prefix alone does not prove which carrier a number is on today. A WhoCallsMe lookup reads the current carrier of record. The main mobile operators are:

• Telia
• Tele2
• Telenor
• Tre (3)