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Mardi Gras in New Orleans 2027 — Live Cameras
Fat Tuesday is Tuesday, February 9, 2027 — 105 days out, and Carnival season opens Wednesday, January 6, 2027. Watch parade-day New Orleans on its public cameras. Free, no signup.
New Orleans runs on Carnival time from Twelfth Night — Wednesday, January 6, 2027 — when the season opens, through weeks of parades to Fat Tuesday, Tuesday, February 9, 2027. This page gathers the public cameras of the New Orleans metro for the season: Louisiana's road feeds around the French Quarter, the freeway corridors and the river bridges — the working machinery of a city moving a million parade-goers.
The honest framing, as on every event page here: the parade routes themselves have no public cameras in the directory — St. Charles Avenue and Bourbon Street are not on this page, and no camera here will show you a float. What the cameras do show is everything around the parades: the I-10 corridor over Claiborne, the Crescent City Connection, the closures and the traffic weather of parade days. For anyone driving to a route, that is the most useful view in the city.
Work the first wall for the centre — the Quarter, the Marigny, Tremé and the Garden District approaches are all inside it — and the second for the whole metro, from the lakefront to the Westbank, as the season builds to its final weekend.
The Quarter & the centre — 5 km
Every public camera in the directory within 5 km of the French Quarter, nearest first — the I-10 and US 90B corridors that ring the old city, the feeds parade-goers actually travel under.
Greater New Orleans — 10 km
Every public camera within 10 km of the French Quarter: the centre plus the lakefront, Mid-City, the I-610 split and the Westbank approaches — the full map of how the city moves on a parade day.
The two views — camera counts
| Area | Cameras |
|---|---|
| The Quarter & the centre (within 5 km) | 18 |
| Greater New Orleans (within 10 km) | 33 |
Counts are public cameras in the WorldEye directory per selection; the 10 km wall includes the 5 km wall.
How to watch Carnival on the cameras
- 1From Twelfth Night on, check the centre wall on parade evenings — the freeway corridors show the city's Carnival pulse as routes let out.
- 2Driving to a parade? The I-10 at Claiborne and the Crescent City Connection feeds are the two that decide your route; check them before you leave.
- 3The final weekend is the crescendo: Endymion Saturday, Bacchus Sunday, then Zulu and Rex on Fat Tuesday morning — the metro wall shows the whole city moving at once.
- 4Fat Tuesday itself is Feb 9, 2027 — the closures around the routes go in early, and the cameras show the last drives in before the streets belong to the parades.
- 5Ash Wednesday is a spectacle too: a hungover, bead-strewn city going back to work, live on the same feeds.
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