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Solar flares in May 1988
C-class103
M-class8
X-class0
LargestM6.01988-05-17
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1987 | 57 | 2 | 0 | M1.3 |
| May 1988 | 103 | 8 | 0 | M6.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-05-17 | 19:27 | 20:30 | 158 | M6.0 | – | – |
| 1988-05-27 | 13:43 | 13:48 | 67 | M2.0 | S25E05 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-20 | 06:08 | 06:24 | 50 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 1988-05-23 | 12:00 | 12:06 | 26 | M1.1 | S26E56 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-26 | 20:32 | 21:16 | 102 | M1.1 | S26E16 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-28 | 00:43 | 00:43 | 10 | M1.1 | S24W00 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-26 | 01:00 | 01:01 | 50 | M1.0 | S28E30 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-29 | 05:31 | 05:38 | 63 | M1.0 | S24W14 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-30 | 19:47 | 20:18 | 59 | C8.9 | S23W40 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-05 | 19:44 | 19:46 | 18 | C8.8 | S22W76 | 5005 |
| 1988-05-23 | 02:53 | 03:01 | 34 | C8.6 | S24E60 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-23 | 05:28 | 05:32 | 72 | C7.9 | S27E61 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-25 | 15:09 | 15:37 | 115 | C7.5 | S24E33 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-27 | 11:26 | 11:34 | 92 | C7.4 | S26E13 | 5027 |
| 1988-05-23 | 08:24 | 08:33 | 44 | C6.6 | S25E58 | 5027 |
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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111 flares of class C or larger in May 1988; by M/X count it ranks 263 of 565 months.