{"id":422652,"date":"2026-08-03T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:34:08","slug":"final-summer-california-state-fair-draws-more-than-650000-visitors-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422652\/","title":{"rendered":"Final summer California State Fair draws more than 650,000 visitors, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday marked the final day of the 2026 California State Fair \u2013 and the final summer run of the Sacramento tradition before it moves to the fall next year.<\/p>\n<p>More than 650,000 people attended this year&#8217;s fair, officials said. Triple-digit temperatures, however, contributed to a drop in attendance during the final weekend, traditionally the event&#8217;s busiest stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers did not release a more precise attendance figure or say how the total compared with 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, the fair will run from Sept. 17 through Oct. 3, a shift organizers said will help visitors avoid Sacramento&#8217;s often brutal summer heat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been listening to our fairgoers, and we&#8217;re excited to return the Fair to its historic roots,&#8221; Cal Expo and State Fair CEO Tom Martinez said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The first California State Fair was held in October 1854.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday marked the final day of the 2026 California State Fair \u2013 and the final summer run of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,52469,121],"class_list":["post-422652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-state-fair","tag-sacramento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}