With one day to go, attendance to the Iowa State Fair in 2025 had already topped one million.

The Iowa State Fair saw 118,093 fairgoers in attendance on Saturday, Aug. 16.

To break the 2024 total attendance record, the fair would need to log 112,241 attendees on Sunday.

How does Saturday's attendance compare to 2024?

In 2024, a total of 126,142 people went to the tenth day of the Iowa State Fair, which was the second-highest single-day total in 2024.

In total, 1,182,682 people attended the fair in 2024, surpassing the record set in 2019 by roughly 12,000 people.

How does 2025 Iowa State Fair attendance compare to 2024?

Day: 2025 (2024)

Thursday: 95,671 (90,822)

Friday: 104,191 (109,854)

Saturday: 118,454 (128,732)

Sunday: 113,001 (115,048)

Monday: 97,273 (92,920)

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