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Solar flares in August 1980
C-class178
M-class18
X-class0
LargestM7.81980-08-21
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1979 | 100 | 15 | 4 | X0.6 |
| August 1980 | 178 | 18 | 0 | M7.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-08-21 | 18:54 | 19:02 | 53 | M7.8 | N20W14 | 2629 |
| 1980-08-31 | 13:25 | 13:30 | 78 | M5.6 | S05E41 | 2645 |
| 1980-08-13 | 12:50 | 12:56 | 70 | M3.9 | S28E45 | 2618 |
| 1980-08-31 | 12:49 | 12:49 | 7 | M2.8 | N12E28 | 2646 |
| 1980-08-22 | 21:22 | 21:29 | 39 | M2.2 | N13E50 | 2635 |
| 1980-08-11 | 00:54 | 01:27 | 39 | M2.1 | – | 2618 |
| 1980-08-23 | 21:26 | 21:29 | 3 | M2.1 | N16W39 | 2629 |
| 1980-08-24 | 19:05 | 19:49 | 75 | M2.1 | N15W54 | 2629 |
| 1980-08-21 | 13:35 | 13:50 | 48 | M1.9 | N19W08 | 2629 |
| 1980-08-24 | 05:09 | 05:43 | 51 | M1.9 | – | 2629 |
| 1980-08-25 | 20:05 | 20:08 | 10 | M1.9 | – | 2629 |
| 1980-08-26 | 01:05 | 01:10 | 10 | M1.9 | – | 2629 |
| 1980-08-25 | 12:29 | 13:03 | 65 | M1.5 | N18W62 | 2629 |
| 1980-08-10 | 20:57 | 21:29 | 70 | M1.4 | – | 2618 |
| 1980-08-27 | 13:32 | 13:34 | 22 | M1.4 | S07E80 | 2645 |
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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196 flares of class C or larger in August 1980; by M/X count it ranks 168 of 565 months.