What Sets It Apart
The South Florida Fair runs 17 days across three weekends every January at the South Florida Fairgrounds, one of the state's largest and longest-running fairs. 2025 attendance reached 406,570 — a slight dip from 2024 despite early rain, with six individual days setting new records once weather cleared. The fair serves Palm Beach County and the wider South Florida region with a full midway, livestock shows, and concerts.
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Expect headline grandstand entertainment, major carnival midway, livestock shows, 4-H and FFA competitions, agricultural and horticultural exhibitions, and a massive array of food and commercial vendors in the heart of South Florida.
A Closer Look
West Palm Beach is home to the South Florida Fair, which is a seventeen-day January spectacular, one of the largest and most attended fairs in the Southeast drawing over a million visitors to the Palm Beach Fairgrounds each winter season. First held in 1912, it's carried on as a Florida agricultural tradition for well over a hundred years.
Planning Your Visit
West Palm Beach is the cultural capital of Palm Beach County — the Norton Museum of Art, The Breakers historic hotel, Worth Avenue shopping, and the Palm Beach Zoo are all within easy reach of the fairgrounds.
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