828 Area Code 🌍☎️

The most populous cities in area code 828 are: Asheville, Hickory, Morganton, Hendersonville, and Arden.

Other cities in the 828 area code include: Sylva, Boone, Lenoir, Marion, Waynesville, Rutherfordton, Forest City, Murphy, Newton, Franklin, Banner Elk, Brevard, Spruce Pine, Burnsville, Taylorsville, Granite Falls, Columbus, Marshall, Valdese, Highlands, Ellenboro, Canton, Claremont, Weaverville, Maiden, Blowing Rock, Hot Springs, Cashiers, Bryson City, Mars Hill, Cherokee, Hildebran, Maggie Valley, Tryon, Lake Lure, Clyde, Newland, Robbinsville, Mooresboro, Black Mountain, Candler, Andrews, Old Fort, Catawba, Elk Park, Hayesville, Sherrills Ford, Cullowhee, Bakersville, Leicester, Swannanoa, Barnardsville, Saluda, Sugar Grove, Fontana Dam, and Fairview.

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 11th largest city in North Carolina. The city's population was 87,236 according to the 2013 estimates. It is the principal city in the four-county Asheville metropolitan area, with a population of 424,858 in 2010. Asheville is home to the United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the world's largest active archive of weather data.

Hickory is a city located primarily in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States, with parts in adjoining Burke and Caldwell counties. The city's population at the 2010 census was 40,010, with an estimated population in 2013 of 40,361. Hickory is the principal city in the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton MSA, in which the population at the 2010 census was 365,497 and is also included as part of the Charlotte–Concord Combined Statistical Area.

Morganton is a city in Burke County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 16,918 at the 2010 census. Morganton is the county seat. Morganton is one of the principal cities in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. A site five miles north of here has been identified as the Mississippian culture chiefdom of Joara, occupied from 1400AD to 1600AD. This was also the site of Fort San Juan, built in 1567 by a Spanish expedition as the first European settlement in the interior of North America, 40 years before the English settlement of Jamestown, Virginia.

The 828 area code lies within the Eastern Daylight Time Zone (or EDT). The current time in Eastern Daylight Time is 07:23 AM on Mar 10, 2026.