Area code 801 calling hours: can you call now?

Area code 801 serves Salt Lake City, Midvale, and Provo in Utah. It is on Mountain time. Clocks move for daylight saving time in March and November.

Debt collection: federal — Presumed convenient 8 a.m.-9 p.m. local time at the consumer's location, any day. Utah: no separate hour rule.
Telemarketing: federal — 8 a.m.-9 p.m. local time at the called party's location, any day. Utah: 8 a.m.–9 p.m. local time Monday–Saturday; no solicitations on Sundays or Utah legal holidays.

Live check: area code 801

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Not checked here: consent, Do-Not-Call lists, Reg F call frequency (7 calls in 7 days), cease-communication requests or attorney representation, reassigned numbers, and whether the consumer has told you a time is inconvenient.

Calling-hour rules for 801

Hours are local time at the person you are calling. When federal and Utah rules differ, the narrower window governs; the live check applies every row at once.

Rule set	Debt collection	Telemarketing
Federal	Presumed convenient 8 a.m.-9 p.m. local time at the consumer's location, any day. Every day 8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. 15 U.S.C. § 1692c(a)(1) · 12 CFR § 1006.6(b)(1)(i) (Regulation F) · Reg F Official Interpretation, comment 6(b)(1)(i)-2 (consumer's location) · 12 CFR § 1006.14(b)(2) Call-frequency presumption: a collector is presumed to comply with the harassment ban if it places no more than 7 calls to a person about a particular debt within 7 consecutive days, and no call within 7 days after a telephone conversation with that person about the debt; exceeding either is presumed a violation (12 CFR § 1006.14(b)(2)). Conflicting location information: if the collector's information indicates the consumer may be in more than one place (e.g. an Eastern-zone area code and a Pacific-zone address), it complies only by calling at a time convenient in all of those locations (Reg F comment 6(b)(1)(i)-2). A collector may not call at any time it knows or should know is inconvenient to the consumer (e.g. after the consumer says so), regardless of the 8 a.m.-9 p.m. default (15 U.S.C. § 1692c(a)(1); Reg F comment 6(b)(1)-1). No federal Sunday or holiday ban, but a consumer's statement that a day or time is inconvenient makes calls then unlawful. The 8-9 window is a default presumption that the consumer's prior consent (given directly to the collector) or a court can override.	8 a.m.-9 p.m. local time at the called party's location, any day. Every day 8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. 47 CFR § 64.1200(c)(1) (TCPA rules) · 16 CFR § 310.4(c) (Telemarketing Sales Rule) No telephone solicitation to a number on the National Do Not Call Registry absent an established business relationship or the consumer's signed written permission (47 CFR § 64.1200(c)(2); 16 CFR § 310.4(b)(1)(iii)(B)). Autodialed or artificial/prerecorded-voice telemarketing calls to wireless numbers, and prerecorded telemarketing calls to residential lines, require the called party's prior express written consent (47 CFR § 64.1200(a)(2)-(3)). Sellers must honor company-specific do-not-call requests (47 CFR § 64.1200(d); 16 CFR § 310.4(b)(1)(iii)(A)). TSR § 310.4(c) allows calls outside 8-9 with the person's prior consent; the TCPA time rule in § 64.1200(c)(1) has no consent exception for telephone solicitations as defined.
Utah	No separate state hours; the federal window applies.	8 a.m.–9 p.m. local time Monday–Saturday; no solicitations on Sundays or Utah legal holidays. Mon–Sat 8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.; Sun no calls; no calls on state holidays Utah Code § 13-25a-103(3) · Utah Code § 63G-1-301 (legal holidays, effective 1/1/2027 version) · Utah Code § 63G-1-301 (version effective 5/6/2026) Autodialed solicitations are prohibited without prior express consent or an established business relationship (Utah Code § 13-25a-103(1)–(2)). Solicitor must identify itself, its business and purpose, end the call on a negative response, and not block caller ID (Utah Code § 13-25a-103(5)–(6)). Under § 63G-1-301 (2026 version, through 12/31/2026) Juneteenth falling Tue–Fri was observed the preceding Monday; from 1/1/2027 it follows the Sat→Fri / Sun→Mon rule modeled here. Days proclaimed by the President or Governor as days of fasting/thanksgiving or extraordinary-conditions holidays (§ 63G-1-301(1)(a)(vi), (5)) are also legal holidays and are not modeled.

Debt collection

Telemarketing

Federal

Presumed convenient 8 a.m.-9 p.m. local time at the consumer's location, any day.

Every day 8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

15 U.S.C. § 1692c(a)(1) · 12 CFR § 1006.6(b)(1)(i) (Regulation F) · Reg F Official Interpretation, comment 6(b)(1)(i)-2 (consumer's location) · 12 CFR § 1006.14(b)(2)

Call-frequency presumption: a collector is presumed to comply with the harassment ban if it places no more than 7 calls to a person about a particular debt within 7 consecutive days, and no call within 7 days after a telephone conversation with that person about the debt; exceeding either is presumed a violation (12 CFR § 1006.14(b)(2)).
Conflicting location information: if the collector's information indicates the consumer may be in more than one place (e.g. an Eastern-zone area code and a Pacific-zone address), it complies only by calling at a time convenient in all of those locations (Reg F comment 6(b)(1)(i)-2).
A collector may not call at any time it knows or should know is inconvenient to the consumer (e.g. after the consumer says so), regardless of the 8 a.m.-9 p.m. default (15 U.S.C. § 1692c(a)(1); Reg F comment 6(b)(1)-1).

No federal Sunday or holiday ban, but a consumer's statement that a day or time is inconvenient makes calls then unlawful. The 8-9 window is a default presumption that the consumer's prior consent (given directly to the collector) or a court can override.

8 a.m.-9 p.m. local time at the called party's location, any day.

Every day 8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

47 CFR § 64.1200(c)(1) (TCPA rules) · 16 CFR § 310.4(c) (Telemarketing Sales Rule)

No telephone solicitation to a number on the National Do Not Call Registry absent an established business relationship or the consumer's signed written permission (47 CFR § 64.1200(c)(2); 16 CFR § 310.4(b)(1)(iii)(B)).
Autodialed or artificial/prerecorded-voice telemarketing calls to wireless numbers, and prerecorded telemarketing calls to residential lines, require the called party's prior express written consent (47 CFR § 64.1200(a)(2)-(3)).
Sellers must honor company-specific do-not-call requests (47 CFR § 64.1200(d); 16 CFR § 310.4(b)(1)(iii)(A)).

TSR § 310.4(c) allows calls outside 8-9 with the person's prior consent; the TCPA time rule in § 64.1200(c)(1) has no consent exception for telephone solicitations as defined.

Utah

No separate state hours; the federal window applies.

8 a.m.–9 p.m. local time Monday–Saturday; no solicitations on Sundays or Utah legal holidays.

Mon–Sat 8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.; Sun no calls; no calls on state holidays

Utah Code § 13-25a-103(3) · Utah Code § 63G-1-301 (legal holidays, effective 1/1/2027 version) · Utah Code § 63G-1-301 (version effective 5/6/2026)

Autodialed solicitations are prohibited without prior express consent or an established business relationship (Utah Code § 13-25a-103(1)–(2)).
Solicitor must identify itself, its business and purpose, end the call on a negative response, and not block caller ID (Utah Code § 13-25a-103(5)–(6)).

Under § 63G-1-301 (2026 version, through 12/31/2026) Juneteenth falling Tue–Fri was observed the preceding Monday; from 1/1/2027 it follows the Sat→Fri / Sun→Mon rule modeled here. Days proclaimed by the President or Governor as days of fasting/thanksgiving or extraordinary-conditions holidays (§ 63G-1-301(1)(a)(vi), (5)) are also legal holidays and are not modeled.

Also in Utah

No Utah statute setting debt-collection calling hours was found (the collection-agency registration chapter, Utah Code Title 12 ch. 1, was repealed in 2023); federal FDCPA/Reg F applies.

No-call holidays in Utah, next 12 months

Utah bars telemarketing calls on its legal holidays. When a holiday falls on a weekend and the state observes it on a weekday, both days are listed and both are treated as no-call days.

Date	Holiday
2026-10-12	Columbus Day
2026-11-11	Veterans Day
2026-11-26	Thanksgiving Day
2026-12-25	Christmas
2027-01-01	New Year's Day
2027-01-18	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2027-02-15	Presidents' Day
2027-03-26	Good Friday
2027-03-28	Easter Sunday
2027-05-31	Memorial Day
2027-06-18	Juneteenth National Freedom Day (observed)
2027-06-19	Juneteenth National Freedom Day
2027-07-04	Independence Day
2027-07-05	Independence Day (observed)
2027-07-23	Pioneer Day (observed)
2027-07-24	Pioneer Day
2027-09-06	Labor Day

Exchanges and time zones

Every assigned exchange in 801 sits in Mountain time, so the area code alone settles the zone for a landline. Rate centers by exchange count:

Rate center	Exchanges
Salt Lake City, UT	273
Midvale, UT	118
Provo, UT	110
Ogden, UT	86
Kaysville, UT	44
Murray, UT	43
Bountiful, UT	21
Clearfield, UT	19
American Fork, UT	12
Lehi, UT	9
Pleasant Grove, UT	8
Spanish Fork, UT	8
Springville, UT	8
Farmington, UT	7
Payson, UT	6
Morgan, UT	5
Alta, UT	3
Eagle Mountain, UT	1
Goshen, UT	1
Spanish Fork Canyon, UT	1

Overlay codes — same territory as 801, same rules: 385

Other area codes in Utah:

435 Saint George

Why area code alone is not enough

Mobile numbers travel with their owners, and a ported number keeps its original 801 area code and exchange. An 801 number tells you where the line was assigned, not where the person is today.
Under Regulation F, when you know of more than one location for a consumer — a mailing address in one zone, an area code in another — the time must be convenient in every one of them. Use the address-state field above to add the zones you know about.
Call only when the window is open in every location you know about, and stop calling at times the consumer tells you are inconvenient, whatever the clock says.

Questions

What time can you call area code 801?

Area code 801 is in Utah, on Mountain time. Debt collection: federal — Presumed convenient 8 a.m.-9 p.m. local time at the consumer's location, any day. Utah: no separate hour rule. Telemarketing: federal — 8 a.m.-9 p.m. local time at the called party's location, any day. Utah: 8 a.m.–9 p.m. local time Monday–Saturday; no solicitations on Sundays or Utah legal holidays.

What time zone is area code 801?

Area code 801 is entirely in Mountain time. Clocks move for daylight saving time in March and November.

Can a debt collector call an 801 number on Sunday?

Neither federal law nor Utah sets separate Sunday hours for debt collection; the 8 a.m.–9 p.m. local-time window applies, and a consumer can tell a collector that Sunday is inconvenient.

Does Utah restrict calls on holidays?

Yes. Utah bars telemarketing calls on its legal holidays. This page lists the dates for the next 12 months.

Is the 801 area code enough to know the person's local time?

No. Mobile numbers move with their owners and ported numbers keep their area code, so an 801 number may belong to someone in another time zone. If you know other locations for the person, the call should fit the window in all of them.

Sources

This page is general information, not legal advice. Laws change and some rules depend on who is calling and why; confirm with counsel. Rules last reviewed 2026-10-07.