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Solar flares in April 1980
C-class127
M-class35
X-class2
LargestX0.51980-04-04
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1979 | 113 | 12 | 1 | X0.1 |
| April 1980 | 127 | 35 | 2 | X0.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-04-04 | 14:57 | 15:09 | 272 | X0.5 | N24W34 | 2363 |
| 1980-04-30 | 20:22 | 20:24 | 20 | M2.2 | S13W90 | 2396 |
| 1980-04-28 | 12:28 | 12:40 | 39 | M2.1 | S29W56 | 2407 |
| 1980-04-06 | 14:18 | 14:24 | 80 | X0.2 | N12E15 | 2372 |
| 1980-04-29 | 12:57 | 12:59 | 15 | M2.0 | S11W75 | 2396 |
| 1980-04-30 | 11:26 | 11:28 | 5 | M2.0 | S09W39 | 2419 |
| 1980-04-28 | 20:40 | 20:40 | 15 | C9.9 | S14W69 | 2396 |
| 1980-04-30 | 05:45 | 05:48 | 20 | C9.5 | S30W78 | 2407 |
| 1980-04-29 | 20:10 | 20:12 | 15 | C9.3 | S32W70 | – |
| 1980-04-28 | 17:04 | 17:07 | 42 | C9.1 | S12W65 | 2396 |
| 1980-04-28 | 21:04 | 21:09 | 59 | C8.7 | S14W61 | 2396 |
| 1980-04-28 | 12:04 | 12:04 | 16 | C8.3 | S09W63 | 2396 |
| 1980-04-29 | 10:47 | 10:51 | 10 | C8.2 | – | – |
| 1980-04-30 | 15:44 | 16:13 | 57 | C8.2 | – | – |
| 1980-04-07 | 05:18 | 05:38 | 62 | M0.8 | N12E01 | 2372 |
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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164 flares of class C or larger in April 1980; by M/X count it ranks 79 of 565 months.