🇵🇭How to call the Philippines from the US

Dial 011, then 63, then the Philippines number. Manila's area code is a single digit, 2, so a Manila landline reads +63 2 followed by eight digits. Numbers written locally as 02 or (02) drop that leading zero, and mobile numbers written 0917 become +63 917. From a browser on Airlophone there is no exit code at all: you type the number starting +63 and the price for that exact number appears before it dials.

+63. From the US you dial 011 first to leave the country, so the full string begins 011 63. From the UK and most of Europe the exit code is 00 instead, and from Australia it is 0011.

On Airlophone it starts at $0.59 a minute, billed per minute with part of a minute counting as a full one. The exact price depends on the band: landline $0.59, mobile $0.89 per minute. The band is read from the digits of the number itself, so you are never asked to guess whether a number is a landline or a mobile. Calling the same number on a mobile carrier's international direct dial or while roaming is charged separately by that carrier and is normally a great deal more.

The Philippines is 12 hours ahead of US Eastern in summer and 13 in winter, and does not use daylight saving. Late evening on the US East Coast is the following midday in Manila, which is the only comfortable window.

No. Airlophone runs in a browser tab, so there is nothing to install and no SIM to buy, and it works the same on a laptop you have borrowed. The person you call needs nothing either: the call arrives on the ordinary phone network, so their phone rings whether it is a landline or a mobile and whether or not they have internet.