ST. PAUL — With a total of 1,940,869 tickets sold across 12 days, this year’s Minnesota State Fair beat out a number of previous years’ attendance to become the fifth-busiest Fair and the best-attended since before the pandemic.

Last year’s Fair previously held the fifth-busiest spot, with 1,925,904 total tickets sold.

Despite a modestly higher total attendance, this year’s Fair had only one record-breaking day, compared to five last year. Only Monday, Aug. 25, broke an attendance record — and barely so, at that — with 145,022 people showing up to the Fairgrounds, beating the 2017 record by 518 people.

The all-time busiest Fairs were in 2019 and 2018, when total attendance surpassed 2 million.

Weather-wise, this year’s Fair was one of the nicest in recent memory. Most days had high tem

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