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Solar flares in January 1980
C-class87
M-class24
X-class1
LargestX0.11980-01-08
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1979 | 121 | 23 | 1 | X0.1 |
| January 1980 | 87 | 24 | 1 | X0.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-01-08 | 10:10 | 10:13 | 97 | X0.1 | S11E29 | 2232 |
| 1980-01-06 | 21:20 | 21:34 | 40 | M0.9 | S09E52 | 2232 |
| 1980-01-09 | 00:05 | 00:30 | 58 | M0.7 | S09E25 | 2232 |
| 1980-01-25 | 19:17 | 21:03 | 258 | M0.7 | S19W51 | 2247 |
| 1980-01-10 | 04:48 | 05:17 | 62 | M0.6 | S11E08 | 2232 |
| 1980-01-13 | 03:56 | – | 34 | M0.3 | N17W60 | 2229 |
| 1980-01-13 | 18:06 | 18:15 | 135 | M0.3 | N15W65 | 2229 |
| 1980-01-14 | 06:20 | 06:25 | 15 | M0.3 | N12W72 | 2229 |
| 1980-01-29 | 16:44 | 16:54 | 16 | M0.3 | S15E79 | 2266 |
| 1980-01-13 | 16:19 | 16:25 | 20 | M0.2 | S18W69 | 2227 |
| 1980-01-27 | 23:15 | 23:47 | 53 | M0.2 | N02E74 | 2259 |
| 1980-01-01 | 17:47 | 18:14 | 65 | M0.1 | N13E59 | 2220 |
| 1980-01-06 | 16:51 | 16:52 | 3 | M0.1 | N19E30 | 2229 |
| 1980-01-07 | 12:13 | 13:16 | 81 | M0.1 | S03E44 | 2232 |
| 1980-01-08 | 04:10 | 04:16 | 38 | M0.1 | N22E09 | 2229 |
All times UTC. Until June 2017 classes are NOAA's reports of the time (GOES-15 and earlier included a 0.7 scaling factor); later classes come from calibrated GOES-16/18 data, so the same flare reads about 1.4× larger. Do not compare the two periods directly.
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112 flares of class C or larger in January 1980; by M/X count it ranks 125 of 565 months.