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Solar flares in December 1980
C-class211
M-class38
X-class0
LargestM7.51980-12-02
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1979 | 85 | 21 | 2 | X0.1 |
| December 1980 | 211 | 38 | 0 | M7.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-12-02 | 11:20 | 11:23 | 52 | M7.5 | S11E12 | 2810 |
| 1980-12-15 | 19:20 | 19:27 | 32 | M5.6 | N11E28 | 2840 |
| 1980-12-16 | 11:49 | 11:54 | 47 | M5.1 | N12E20 | 2841 |
| 1980-12-12 | 05:00 | 05:02 | 26 | M4.9 | N06E78 | 2840 |
| 1980-12-16 | 14:27 | 14:54 | 49 | M4.7 | N09E14 | 2840 |
| 1980-12-12 | 00:17 | 00:21 | 50 | M4.4 | N05E81 | 2840 |
| 1980-12-16 | 09:42 | 10:12 | 41 | M4.2 | N06E24 | 2840 |
| 1980-12-17 | 12:06 | 12:09 | 64 | M4.0 | N10E07 | 2841 |
| 1980-12-23 | 21:12 | 21:16 | 8 | M3.0 | – | 2857 |
| 1980-12-02 | 12:35 | 12:49 | 40 | M2.8 | – | 2810 |
| 1980-12-29 | 12:38 | 13:17 | 40 | M2.8 | S22W15 | 2855 |
| 1980-12-12 | 16:54 | 17:03 | 81 | M2.5 | N13E03 | 2826 |
| 1980-12-26 | 07:17 | 07:34 | 33 | M2.1 | – | – |
| 1980-12-16 | 08:05 | 08:09 | 8 | M2.0 | N09E18 | 2840 |
| 1980-12-18 | 01:40 | 01:44 | 35 | M2.0 | N07W00 | 2840 |
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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249 flares of class C or larger in December 1980; by M/X count it ranks 76 of 565 months.