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The Southern Hemisphere's biggest LGBTQIA+ festival: three weeks of events, the Oxford Street parade and the all-night Mardi Gras Party.
Sydney Mardi Gras is a season, not a weekend. The festival runs for about three weeks from mid-February, culminating in the parade up Oxford Street and the official Mardi Gras Party that runs until dawn.
The city's promoters stack the surrounding weekends with their own parties, so the Sydney city page is at its fullest through late February and the first week of March.