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Solar flares in June 1988
C-class152
M-class23
X-class4
LargestX5.61988-06-24
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1987 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C3.9 |
| June 1988 | 152 | 23 | 4 | X5.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-06-24 | 16:44 | 16:48 | 94 | X5.6 | – | 5047 |
| 1988-06-24 | 16:03 | 16:48 | 51 | X2.4 | S17W52 | 5047 |
| 1988-06-23 | 08:56 | 09:27 | 67 | X1.6 | S19W34 | 5047 |
| 1988-06-24 | 04:18 | 04:30 | 163 | X1.3 | S18W45 | 5047 |
| 1988-06-30 | 09:04 | 09:06 | 12 | M9.2 | S16E22 | 5060 |
| 1988-06-23 | 17:53 | 17:57 | 55 | M8.1 | S17W35 | 5047 |
| 1988-06-29 | 07:34 | 07:38 | 73 | M6.5 | S19E24 | 5060 |
| 1988-06-25 | 16:36 | 16:45 | 21 | M6.0 | S20E89 | 5060 |
| 1988-06-22 | 22:23 | 22:42 | 36 | M5.2 | S18W27 | 5047 |
| 1988-06-28 | 11:10 | 11:24 | 34 | M4.5 | S21E48 | 5060 |
| 1988-06-29 | 20:15 | 20:17 | 60 | M4.1 | S19E27 | 5060 |
| 1988-06-04 | 06:14 | 07:45 | 170 | M3.6 | S26W90 | 5027 |
| 1988-06-24 | 21:23 | 21:28 | 30 | M3.3 | S21E89 | – |
| 1988-06-28 | 10:12 | 10:13 | 6 | M3.2 | N12E53 | 5062 |
| 1988-06-25 | 06:18 | 06:59 | 95 | M3.0 | – | – |
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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179 flares of class C or larger in June 1988; by M/X count it ranks 115 of 565 months.