Minnesota State Fair breaks another attendance record, fourth this year

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (FOX 9) – The Minnesota State Fair set another attendance record on Friday, with 225,521 visitors.

What we know

After the bad weather on Thursday put a damper on the number of visitors, the visitors returned on Friday. The audience was more than three times as large.

This makes August 30 the most attended day of the Minnesota State Fair in 2024 so far.

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The previous record for the stock market’s second Friday, 209,789, was set in 2019.

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So far, a total of 1,286,922 people have visited the 2024 fair.

Dig deeper

The fair set two records in a row and started in 2024. There were large numbers of visitors on both the opening day (138,875 people) and the first Friday (171,233 people).

On Wednesday 28 August a new record was set, with 145,531 visitors, breaking the 2018 record of 144,940.

On August 26, the state fair had its lowest number of visitors on a Monday and first Sunday since the 1980s, likely due to a combination of extreme heat and threatening storms. It recovered somewhat on Tuesday, but the number of visitors was still lower than in 2023.

Turnout was also noticeably low on Thursday, August 30, as many people sought shelter due to heavy storms.