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California State Fair in Sacramento
The California State Fair runs for seventeen days each summer at Cal Expo in Sacramento, combining blue-ribbon livestock and agricultural competitions with a midway carnival, concerts, culinary contests, and nightly fireworks. As the state's official fair, it drew daily crowds between 20,000 and 60,000 people in recent pre-pandemic years, alongside roughly 8.5 million dollars in food and beverage spending.
For seventeen days each summer, the Cal Expo fairgrounds in Sacramento become the stage for California's official state fair, an event built around showcasing the state's outsized role in American agriculture.