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Solar flares in November 1980
C-class196
M-class109
X-class7
LargestX9.01980-11-06
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1979 | 58 | 59 | 2 | X0.1 |
| November 1980 | 196 | 109 | 7 | X9.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-11-06 | 03:40 | 03:48 | 108 | X9.0 | S12E74 | 2779 |
| 1980-11-05 | 13:41 | 13:55 | 77 | X4.4 | – | 2779 |
| 1980-11-08 | 13:33 | 13:37 | 125 | X3.3 | N08W28 | 2776 |
| 1980-11-07 | 01:56 | 02:06 | 79 | X2.7 | N07W11 | 2776 |
| 1980-11-12 | 04:46 | 04:50 | 6 | X2.5 | N10W72 | 2776 |
| 1980-11-15 | 15:40 | 15:50 | 111 | X1.9 | S12W83 | 2779 |
| 1980-11-06 | 14:44 | 15:26 | 136 | X1.2 | – | 2779 |
| 1980-11-11 | 09:06 | 09:18 | 52 | M9.6 | N10W63 | 2776 |
| 1980-11-13 | 00:31 | 00:37 | 53 | M9.4 | S11W21 | 2779 |
| 1980-11-19 | 04:33 | 04:57 | 102 | M9.1 | – | 2779 |
| 1980-11-13 | 09:37 | 09:51 | 54 | M8.7 | – | 2777 |
| 1980-11-16 | 08:59 | 09:04 | 8 | M8.7 | N16W06 | 2788 |
| 1980-11-07 | 17:26 | 17:42 | 81 | M8.5 | N08W18 | 2776 |
| 1980-11-10 | 11:40 | 11:41 | 101 | M8.0 | S11W54 | 2777 |
| 1980-11-14 | 06:20 | 08:08 | 112 | M8.0 | – | 2776 |
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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312 flares of class C or larger in November 1980; by M/X count it ranks 5 of 565 months.