New Orleans Mardi Gras 2024

Live Stream and TV coverage from New Orleans. Full parade schedule, dates, start times and Order of March

Mardi Gras, 2 words we love to hear, returns again to New Orleans. With it's huge following and a cavalcade of colourful parades leading up to the climax of the carnival season on Fat Tuesday, this is a day for celebration and making lasting memories.

Watching Mardi Gras remotely has become so much easier with coverage continuing to expand each year, with the free live stream bringing the main parades to an online audience worldwide, while the local TV channels will add the usual extra local flavour. Local webcams on some of the main streets also help add colour for those wishing to tune in from afar.

In New Orleans this translates to a whole carnival season that lasts for weeks, before culminating in the main parade. Canal Street is the main focus of the parade itself, but for most people the main party takes place on Bourbon Street in the famous French Quarter, or Vieux Carre, where the most popular bars are located - names like The Old Absinthe House, Pat O'Brien's and Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop will be turning a roaring trade, while the traditional southern food and hospitality at the local restaurants are an absolute must.

Mardi Gras Parade Schedule

The New Orleans Mardi Gras is actually a whole season of parades in the weeks leading up to the main event, the Mardi Gras parade on Fat Tuesday.

On Lundi Gras, in Uptown New Orleans there is the Krewe of Porteus parade at 5.15pm and then Krewe of Orpheus at 6pm.

The scehdule for the main Mardi Gras parades on Fat Tuesday, 13th February 2024:

Uptown New Orleans

Krewe of Zulu, 8am
Krewe of Rex, 10.30am
Krewe of Elks Orleans follows
Krewe of Crescent City, follows

Metairie

Krewe of Argus, 11am
Krewe of Elks Jeffersonians, follows

Covington

Covington Lions Club 10am
Carnival in Covingtons follows

Folsom

Krewe of Folsom, 2pm

You can find the full mardi gras schedule for all of the parades leading up to the main days here.

TV & Live Streaming

There are now typically live streams available online not just of the main parade day, but many of the other parades leading up to it. Local New Orleans TV station WWLTV in particular have extensive online coverage, including online videos of the main events an an excellent parade tracker app:

Mardi Gras on WWLTV

We should point out that this site is now being blocked for European viewers, presumably as a consequence of the GDPR regulations, we will try to find alternative coverage as the main parade day approaches.

One alternative option may be the live stream coverage by WWOZ, although at this stage we have no confirmed Mardi Gras broadcast schedule:

WWOZ live stream

There is also the return of the live streaming parade cam feature provided by Earthcam, with top views from landmarks including Bourbon Street and the famous Cats Meow Balcony for all of the major parades, and these are available internationally:

Mardi Gras parade cam

They also stream from a street view on youtube: Mardi Gras New Orleans Street View

You can see our full range of live coverage of mardi gras and carnival events around the world here:

Watch Mardi Gras live

Hotels and Accommodation

Mardi Gras season in New Orleans is very much peak time for the city's hotels and guest houses, especially the old historic buildings in the iconic French Quarter. As such we recommend you reserve your rooms as far in advance as possible.

You can check out availability and make reservations online for local hotels here.

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