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CLICK HERE FOR 2013 MOBILE PARADE CALENDAR

Mobile's Parades, Krewes & Mardi Gras Calendar

(Please check back in the next few days/weeks for an updated calendar of 2012 Mardi Gras events)

Mobile’s Carnival season seems to go on much longer than in many other cities. In Mobile, more than 50 groups organize parades, balls, and festivities over a period of up to three weeks.

Mobile parade routes include sections that are designated family friendly and prohibit the consumption of alcohol. Bienville Square and Spanish Plaza are centrally located for parade watching, while Dauphin and Royal Streets are home to numerous restaurants, music venues, and shops.

In Mobile’s Mardi Gras culture, you won’t often hear the word krewe (as you might in Louisiana). Here they refer to their parading organizations as "orders" or "societies", or "Knights of", though they serve much the same social, civic, and cultural function. In 1830, Cowbellion de Rakin, Mobile’s first masked parading society was founded, and since that time numerous secret (and not so secret) societies have been formed around Mobile’s Mardi Gras parading tradition.

Because of the number of parades in Mobile, multiple parade routes are used on Fat Tuesday and on the other busy parading days around the peak of Mardi Gras.

Click here to visit the Mobile Carnival Museum's website, and access their list of parade routes and route maps.

As the ancestral home of Carnival in the United States, Mobile, AL has a long proud history of putting on Mardi Gras. With so much to see and do around town, and temperate Gulf Coast weather even in February, Mobile is simply a great place to visit with family and friends at any time of year.

Because Mobile has such a long Mardi Gras parading season it’s possible to enjoy the town and the festivities without getting bogged down with crowds and partygoers (unless that’s your thing), making it ideal for families.

Overall, Mobile offers one of the best Mardi Gras mixes on the Gulf Coast. It’s big with the go wild crowd, but offers more than enough for those who want to participate quietly, and everything in between.

2013 Mobile Mardi Gras Parade Calendar

All parades follow Parade Route A

Information on Mobile Parade Routes can be found by CLICKING HERE

1st Weekend

Friday, February 1, 2013

6:30pm
Order of Inca Parade

Saturday, February 2, 2013

2:00pm
Mobile Mystics Parade

6:30pm
Maids of Mirth Parade

7:00pm
Order of Butterfly Maidens Parade

7:30pm
Krewe of Marry Mates Parade

Sunday, February 3, 2013

6:30pm
Neptune's Daughters Parade

7:00pm
Order of Isis Parade

Monday, February 4, 2013

6:30pm
Mobile Mystical Ladies Parade

7:00pm
Order of Venus Parade

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

6:30pm
Order of LaShe's Parade

Thursday, February 7, 2013

6:30pm
Mystic Stripers Society Parade

2nd Weekend

Friday, February 8, 2013

6:30pm
Crewe of Columbus Parade

Saturday, February 9, 2013

12:00pm
Floral Parade

12:30pm
Knights of Mobile Parade

1:00pm
Order of Angels Parade

6:00pm
Mystics of Time Parade

6:30pm
Coronation of Queen to King Felix III Mobile Convention Center

Sunday, February 10, 2013

2:00pm
Arrival of King Elexis I (at foot of Government Street)

2:30pm
Joe Cain Parade

5:00pm
Le Krewe de Bienville Parade

8:15pm
Coronation of King Elexis Mobile Convention Center

Monday, February 11, 2013

11:00am
Arrival of King Felix III (at foot of Government Street)

12:00pm
King Felix, III Parade

12:00pm
Floral Parade

3:00 pm
MLK Business and Civic Organization Parade (Route D)

3:30pm
MLK Monday Nighter Mystics Parade (Route D)

4:00pm
Northside Merchants Parade (Route D)

6:30pm
Infant Mystics Parade

Mardi Gras Day

Fat Tuesday, February 12, 2013

10:30am
Order of Athena Parade

12:30pm
Knights of Revelry Parade

1:00pm
King Felix Parade

1:30pm
Comic Cowboys Parade

2:00pm
Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (Route B)

6:30pm
Order of Myths Parade (Route C)

Information on Mobile Parade Routes can be found by CLICKING HERE

Mobile Mardi Gras calendar information provided courtesy of the Mobile Carnival Museum.

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