Area codes 757 and 948 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). It is used in the southeastern region of the state of Virginia in the United States. Area code 757 was created on July 1, 1996 as a split from 804. It covers cities like Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Williamsburg, as well as parts of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It was overlaid by 948 on May 9, 2022.