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Solar flares in October 1980
C-class248
M-class31
X-class2
LargestX3.91980-10-25
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1979 | 121 | 32 | 1 | X0.1 |
| October 1980 | 248 | 31 | 2 | X3.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-10-25 | 09:42 | 09:50 | 28 | X3.9 | N19W59 | 2751 |
| 1980-10-14 | 05:42 | 06:13 | 112 | X3.3 | S09W07 | 2725 |
| 1980-10-09 | 11:24 | 11:27 | 5 | M8.7 | S10E54 | 2726 |
| 1980-10-07 | 23:05 | 23:12 | 14 | M5.9 | N14E51 | 2717 |
| 1980-10-23 | 07:36 | 07:41 | 39 | M3.8 | N20W34 | 2751 |
| 1980-10-08 | 20:21 | 20:34 | 27 | M3.4 | – | 2725 |
| 1980-10-11 | 03:39 | 03:59 | 71 | M2.8 | S13E33 | 2726 |
| 1980-10-13 | 09:41 | 09:47 | 10 | M2.8 | N12W41 | 2724 |
| 1980-10-15 | 08:35 | 08:37 | 8 | M2.1 | N14W64 | 2724 |
| 1980-10-08 | 01:24 | 01:43 | 32 | M2.0 | S10E73 | 2726 |
| 1980-10-13 | 04:07 | 04:17 | 49 | M2.0 | S13E03 | 2725 |
| 1980-10-15 | 05:09 | 05:43 | 89 | M2.0 | – | 2741 |
| 1980-10-22 | 23:57 | 00:00 | 3 | M1.9 | – | 2751 |
| 1980-10-18 | 21:29 | 21:31 | 11 | M1.8 | S15E54 | 2744 |
| 1980-10-23 | 00:01 | 00:06 | 8 | M1.7 | N22W34 | 2751 |
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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281 flares of class C or larger in October 1980; by M/X count it ranks 99 of 565 months.