One window per festival
Jazz Fest is two separate Thursday-to-Sunday weekends, April 22 to 25 and April 29 to May 2, with a gap between them. Schedule two windows, not one, so a banner is never live on the Monday in between.
New Orleans: Mardi Gras on Feb. 9, 2027, two jazz weekends and a parish rate of 10 percent
New Orleans has a festival season with a hard start and a long tail. Mardi Gras Day falls on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2027, a date we computed from the day before Ash Wednesday because we found no city notice, and the festivals that follow publish their own 2027 dates: the French Quarter Festival on April 8 to 11, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival over two weekends from April 22 to May 2, and Satchmo SummerFest on July 31 and Aug. 1. For a Shopify store the useful fact is not the crowd but the calendar: each of those is a separate, dated window, and Jazz Fest is itself two windows with a gap between them. This page lists the dates as the organizers state them, adds what the City of New Orleans says about the Orleans Parish sales tax and its three extra economic development districts, and builds a plan for a storefront offers widget that shows only the offers that are live. It links to our Louisiana page for the state's remote-seller registration, so the parish rate here is a rate to look up, not a program to explain. This is not tax advice; confirm with the Louisiana Department of Revenue and the City of New Orleans.
A storefront offers widget that shows one festival offer at a time
- By January 2027
List the offers you will run and give each one a start and an end: a Carnival offer, a French Quarter Festival offer, two Jazz Fest weekends and a Satchmo SummerFest gift. A widget that lists live offers only works if each offer has an end date.
- Through Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2027 (computed)
Run the Carnival offer until the end of Mardi Gras Day, then switch it off in the widget so it does not outlive the date. Confirm the date against the city's calendar first, because we computed it from Ash Wednesday.
- April 8 to 11 and April 22 to May 2, 2027
Schedule the French Quarter Festival offer for its four days and the Jazz Fest offers for the two weekends the festival's FAQ lists, with the gap between them left empty.
- Saturday, July 31 and Sunday, Aug. 1, 2027
Add a small gift with purchase for the two days of Satchmo SummerFest, with a unit cap and an end time on Aug. 1.
- Before you quote tax at checkout
Look up the rate for the delivery address. The city lists 10 percent for tangible personal property and three districts that add to it, and the Louisiana page explains how the Commission's registration applies to a remote seller.
Source: City of New Orleans: Orleans Parish Sales Tax Rate (page updated 5/7/2025)
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Offer ideas for New Orleans
A Carnival offer that ends on the day
End a Carnival offer at the end of Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2027. The date is computed from Ash Wednesday, so recheck it against the city's calendar before you print it on a banner.
A free-festival gift in summer
Satchmo SummerFest is free and lasts two days, July 31 and Aug. 1. A small gift for orders placed that weekend, with a unit cap, fits an event that does not sell tickets.
Rate by address, not by city name
The city's page lists a 10 percent combined rate and three districts that add 0.245, 1 and 2 percent. Do not hard-code one rate for New Orleans, and use the registration rules on our Louisiana page for how a remote seller applies it.
Source: City of New Orleans: Orleans Parish Sales Tax Rate (page updated 5/7/2025)
Questions merchants ask
- When is Mardi Gras in 2027?
- Mardi Gras Day is Tuesday, February 9, 2027. We computed it as the day before Ash Wednesday, which the Bishops' conference lists as February 10, 2027, because we found no 2027 notice from the City of New Orleans.
- When are the New Orleans festivals in 2027?
- French Quarter Festival is April 8 to 11, Jazz Fest is April 22 to 25 and April 29 to May 2, and Satchmo SummerFest is July 31 to Aug. 1, according to each festival's own site. Other large events had not posted 2027 dates when we checked.
- What is the sales tax rate in New Orleans?
- The City of New Orleans lists a combined 10 percent for sales of tangible personal property, a 5 percent parish tax plus the 5 percent state tax, with three economic development districts adding 0.245, 1 and 2 percent. The page was last updated May 7, 2025. This is not tax advice; confirm with the Louisiana Department of Revenue.
- How does a remote seller apply the parish rate?
- Louisiana has a single registration for remote sellers rather than one per parish, which our Louisiana page explains. This page only lists the Orleans Parish rate the city publishes.
Related reading
Dates to plan around
- Satchmo SummerFestFrench Quarter Festivals, Inc.: Satchmo SummerFest
Where New Orleans sits
New Orleans packs a Carnival date, two jazz festival weekends, a French Quarter festival and a free summer festival into the first seven months of the year, each with its own dated window, so a store can run a short offer per event instead of one long sale.
Facts and sources
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' 2027 liturgical calendar lists Ash Wednesday on February 10, 2027 and Easter Sunday on March 28, 2027, so Mardi Gras Day, the day before Ash Wednesday, is Tuesday, February 9, 2027, a date we computed because we found no 2027 notice from the city.
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: Liturgical Calendar for the Dioceses of the United States of America, 2027 (accessed October 10, 2026)
French Quarter Festival's own site shows the festival dates as April 8-11, 2027.
French Quarter Festivals, Inc.: French Quarter Festival (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Jazz Fest FAQ gives the 2027 festival as Thursday, April 22 through Sunday, April 25 and Thursday, April 29 through Sunday, May 2, with the Heritage Fair at the Fair Grounds Race Course.
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: FAQ (accessed October 10, 2026)
Satchmo SummerFest's site lists the 2027 festival for July 31 to August 1 and describes it as a free, two-day celebration of Louis Armstrong hosted at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
French Quarter Festivals, Inc.: Satchmo SummerFest (accessed October 10, 2026)
The City of New Orleans says the combined Louisiana and Orleans Parish rate is 10 percent for sales of tangible personal property, made of a 5 percent parish tax and a 5 percent state tax, and its page was last updated May 7, 2025.
City of New Orleans: Orleans Parish Sales Tax Rate (page updated 5/7/2025) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The same city page lists three economic development districts that add to the rate: the French Quarter district at an additional 0.245 percent, the Magnolia Marketplace district at an additional 1 percent and the Riverwalk-Spanish Plaza district at an additional 2 percent.
City of New Orleans: Orleans Parish Sales Tax Rate (page updated 5/7/2025) (accessed October 10, 2026)
The Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate puts New Orleans city at 362,154 residents on July 1, 2025, down from 383,361 in its 2020 estimate.
U.S. Census Bureau: Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates (accessed October 10, 2026)
Not tax advice. Confirm current rules with the state revenue department before you rely on a date or an exemption.
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