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As vendors and exhibitors spent Tuesday cleaning and packing up until next year, Minnesota State Fair officials reported that 1,940,869 people visited the fair during its 12-day run.
The final day Monday saw 150,442 people pass through the gates in Falcon Heights.
For the full 12-day run of the fair, this year’s Great Minnesota Get-Together saw the greatest fair attendance since before the pandemic, beating the previous post-pandemic mark of 1,925,904 set last year.
But this year’s fair fell short of the milestone of 2 million visitors. It also fell short of the overall fair attendance record of 2,126,551 people, set in 2019.
The fair attendance this year didn’t reach many new heights — just one daily record, on the first Monday, compared to five daily records in 2024. But it also didn’t have any significant off-days, another change from 2024, when two days had unusually small visitor numbers due to heat and severe storms.
Instead, 2025 was a year of pleasantly mild weather and steady streams of visitors passing through the gates in search of Sweet Martha’s cookies, Pronto Pups, a trip down the Giant Slide and other fair favorites old and new.
Those searches are now on pause until next year — when the fair will return for its annual 12-day run on Aug. 27.
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