What to Know
- LA County Fair
- Fairplex in Pomona
- May 7-31, 2026
- “Play Your Way” is the 2026 theme
- As is tradition, several offbeat and creative foods will be available at food booths around the fair
“May Gray” is a popular way to describe the foggier mornings of the fifth month, it’s true. But the sort-of-still-new fact that the LA County Fair now takes place in May, rather than late summer, may prompt us to re-phrase that particular springtime chestnut.
“May Grazing” seems an apt and appetizing way to sum up a visit to the Fairplex festivity, a grand and century-old Pomona party that will keep the Midway bright, pigs racing, and concerts strumming from May 7 through 31, 2026.
Wait, strike that: LA County Fair isn’t simply “century-old” but a century and a few years on top of that, an amazing achievement…