Mardi Gras 2023!

Nothing about Mardi Gras is predictable – not even the date. Unlike Christmas or the 4th of July which always fall on the same calendar day, the only thing you can count on for sure with Carnival is that Fat Tuesday will fall on, well, a Tuesday. That’s because the date of Easter is tied to the moon (it’s always the first Sunday after the full moon that follows the spring equinox) and Mardi Gras is tied to Easter.

Because Easter can fall on any Sunday between March 23 and April 25, and Mardi Gras is always 47 days before Easter, Zulu and Rex can roll on any Tuesday between Feb. 3 through March 9.    

• Laissez les bons temps rouler: “Let the good times roll.” This is a popular Cajun-French saying during the carnival season that means, “Let the good times roll.”
• Lundi Gras: This is the French term for “Fat Monday,” the day before Mardi Gras.
• Mardi Gras: The French term for “Fat Tuesday,” the day of the Mardi Gras celebrations.
• Ash Wednesday: This signifies the end of the Mardi Gras season. All the craziness of Mardi Gras comes to an end when the clock strikes Midnight on Ash Wednesday. 
• King Cake: This is a festive-looking cake that uses Danish dough, cinnamon, glaze topping and sprinkles. There is also a plastic baby that is hidden within the cake, which is meant to represent baby Jesus on the Epiphany.

1:00p.m. - Krewe de la Dauphine (Dauphin Island) 

1:00p.m. - Dauphin Island People's Parade (Dauphin Island) 

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 6:30 p.m. - Conde Cavaliers (Mobile, Route A) 

• 2 p.m. - Bayport Parading Society, Mystic DJ Riders (Mobile, Route A)
• 2 p.m. - Order of the Rolling River (DIP)
• 6:30 p.m. - Pharaohs, Conde Explorers (Mobile, Route A) 

  6:30 p.m. - Massacre Island Secret Society (Dauphin Island) 

 6:30 p.m. - Order of Polka Dots (Mobile, Route A) 

• 6:30 p.m. - Order of Inca (Mobile, Route A)
• 6:45 p.m. - Apollo's Mystic Ladies (Daphne) 

• 2:00 p.m. - Mobile Mystics, Mobile Mystical Revelers, Mobile Mystical Friends (Mobile, Route A)
• 6:30 p.m. - Knights of Ecor Rouge (Fairhope)
• 6:30 p.m. - Maids of Mirth (Mobile, Route G), Order of Butterfly Maidens, Krewe of Marry Mates, Order of Hebe (Mobile, Route A) 

 6:30 p.m. - Neptune's Daughters, Order of Isis (Mobile, Route A) 

  6:30 p.m. - Order of Venus, Miracle On the Bay, Order of Many Faces (Mobile, Route A) 

 6:30 p.m. - Order of LaShe's; Order of Olympia (Mobile, Route A) 

 6:30 p.m. - Mystic Stripers Society (Mobile, Route A) 

• 6:30 p.m. - Crewe of Columbus, Krewe de Second line (Mobile, Route A)
• 6:45 p.m. - Maids of Jubilee (Fairhope) 

• 11:00a.m. - Foley Parade (Foley)
• Noon - Floral Parade, Knights of Mobile, Mobile Mystical Ladies, Order of Angels, Joy of Life (Mobile, Route A)
• Noon - Krewe of Goats, Prichard Carnival Association (Prichard)
• Noon - Krewe of Sparta (Saraland)
• 2:00 p.m. - Krewe of Mullet Mates (Mullet Point)
• 5:45 p.m. - Mystics of Time (Mobile, Route H)
  6:00p.m. - Mystics of Pleasure (Orange Beach)
• 6:45 p.m. - The Shadow Barons (Daphne) 

• 1:00p.m. - Fort Morgan Parading Society (Fort Morgan)
• 2:00p.m. - King Elexis I Motorcade (Mobile, Route E)
• 2:29 p.m. - Loyal Order of the Fire Truck (Daphne)
• 2.30 p.m. - Joe Cain Procession (Mobile, Route A)
• 5:00p.m. - Le Krewe de Bienville (Mobile, Route A)
• 6:00p.m. - Krewe du Cirque (OWA, Foley) 

• Noon - King Felix III, Floral Parade (Mobile, Route A)
• 3:00p.m. - MLK Business and Civic, MLK Monday Mystics, Northside Merchants (Mobile, Route D)
• 6:45 p.m. - Order of Mystic Magnolias (Fairhope)
• 7:00p.m. - Infant Mystics, Order of Doves (Mobile, Route F) 

10 a.m. - Gulf Shores Parade (Gulf Shores)

10:30 a.m. - Order of Athena (Mobile, Route A

12:30 p.m. - Knights of Revelry, King Felix III, Comic Cowboys (Mobile, Route A)

2:00p.m. - MAMGA Mammoth Parade (Mobile, Route B)

2:00p.m. - Orange Beach Parade (Orange Beach)

6:00p.m. - Order of Myths (Mobile, Route C)