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Mardi Gras day (Fat Tuesday), however, is on a different day each year. Fat Tuesday changes every year because Easter Sunday is never on the same Sunday each year. Fat Tuesday is always the day before Ash Wednesday. Most visitors plan to arrive no later than the Saturday prior to Mardi Gras day and stay through Ash Wednesday. When is Mardi Gras 2025? Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, is on Tuesday, March 4 this year. Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday. Like Ash Wednesday and Easter, Mardi Gras' date changes When is Mardi Gras? Every year, Mardi Gras season begins on Twelfth Night, which is January 6. Twelfth Night represents the Christian holy day of the Epiphany. The season, which represents a time of celebration before Christian Lent, lasts until Fat Tuesday. Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras Day, is March 4 When is Mardi Gras? Mardi Gras 2025 falls on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. 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. Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) is the culmination of a season-long party (Carnival) and there are many events and parades to keep you busy all day long! Keep in mind, Mardi Gras Day never falls on the same Tuesday each year because Easter Sunday never falls on the same Sunday each year. See further details and explanation here. Mardi Gras is coming early next year. This year’s Carnival season lasts 58 days, from 12th Night on Jan. 6 to Mardi Gras on March 4. But next year, Mardi Gras falls on Feb. 17. That means This year, Mardi Gras will be celebrated on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 in the United States. How is the date of Mardi Gras determined each year? Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday,” does not fall on the same day every year, but it is always the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Mardi Gras is the final day before Lent, the season of repentance—marked by fasting, abstinence, prayer, and almsgiving—in preparation for the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. Mardi Gras is often celebrated by eating rich foods and meat—the kinds of thing that people give up for Lent. While New Orleans may be most known for Mardi Gras in the U.S. today, the tiny settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrated America’s very first Mardi Gras in 1703. Mardi Gras was celebrated in New Orleans soon after the city’s founding in 1718. The first recorded Mardi Gras street parade in New Orleans took place in 1837. Incidentally, Mardi Gras will fall on these two dates only once in a lifetime, each occurring roughly once every 100 to 150 years. Mardi Gras is the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent There is a not so simple reason why Mardi Gras and Easter changes dates every year. three day weekend, we just can't do it. The same applies to Christmas Next year, Fat Tuesday will be March 5. Mardi Gras was early this year: Tuesday, Feb. 13. So why isn't Mardi Gras on the same day every year, like Christmas? It's all about Easter, which isn't on There's more to the quintessential Cajun Carnival experience than Fat Tuesday, which takes place on March 5 this year. Learn more about what makes this time in New Orleans so irresistibleand laissez les bons temps rouler! It comes early this year, falling on the last Sunday of the month, March 31. This is 10 days earlier than last year's April 9 date. Next year, Easter is back to the month of April, falling much later than the past two years on April 20, 2025. Of course, this also means that the beginning of Lent and Ash Wednesday change dates every year, too. Mardi Gras is coming early next year. This year’s Carnival season lasts 58 days, from 12th Night on Jan. 6 to Mardi Gras on March 4. But next year, Mardi Gras falls on Feb. 17. That means The first American Mardi Gras took place on March 3, 1699, when French explorers Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville and Sieur de Bienville landed near present-day New Orleans, Louisiana. They held a 4: When was the first Mardi Gras? The first Mardi Gras parade was held in New Orleans on Feb. 24, 1857 by the Krewe of Comus. They began the tradition of presenting a parade with floats and following it with a ball for the krewe and their guests. Mardi Gras Dates. 5: What is the significance of the Mardi Gras colors, and where did they come from? Occurring on any Tuesday from February 3 through March 9, Mardi Gras is tied to Easter, which falls on the first Sunday after the full moon following the Spring Equinox. Because the day before Ash Wednesday, which marked the beginning of Lent, was a day of feasting, it came to be known as Fat Tuesday or, as the French would say, Mardi Gras. The last place I want to highly is the Louisiana Mardi Gras celebration. The first Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans might have been the first one in the new world. It was a small celebration by French explorers in the area in 1699, with community celebrations being documented as early as 1730. Mardi Gras next year falls on March 4, about two weeks before St. Patrick's Day. With 12th Night on Jan. 6 marking the start of Carnival, that means the 2025 season will last 58 days, compared to
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