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Mardi Gras parades: when each route closes to parking

Parking on a parade route is banned from 2 hours before the parade until 2 hours after it passes, and cars left there are ticketed and towed. Here is every parade, by night.

These are the 2026 routes and times, which have already run. The City publishes the next season's routes in January; Easy Lane checks every 3 hours and these pages update the day they're out.

Email me when the 2027 routes are out

One email the day the City publishes the new routes, then a heads-up the evening before each parade day through Mardi Gras.

No account. One tap to stop.

  1. Friday, January 23

  2. Friday, January 30

  3. Saturday, January 31

  4. Friday, February 6

  5. Saturday, February 7

  6. Sunday, February 8

  7. Wednesday, February 11

  8. Thursday, February 12

  9. Friday, February 13

  10. Saturday, February 14

  11. Sunday, February 15

  12. Monday, February 16

  13. Tuesday, February 17

Which nights does Carnival take my block?Where to cross a parade route

From the City of New Orleans Mardi Gras Routes data (data.nola.gov), checked every 3 hours. Not checked: where the parade is right now, weather reschedules announced after our last check, NOPD barricades and side-street closures, and temporary signs on the block.