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Solar flares in July 1988
C-class191
M-class13
X-class0
LargestM4.41988-07-08
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1987 | 33 | 2 | 0 | M3.0 |
| July 1988 | 191 | 13 | 0 | M4.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-07-08 | 11:47 | 11:55 | 35 | M4.4 | N11W90 | 5062 |
| 1988-07-31 | 07:18 | 07:27 | 54 | M4.0 | N34E41 | 5092 |
| 1988-07-07 | 07:22 | 07:23 | 22 | M3.3 | N13W73 | 5062 |
| 1988-07-02 | 00:41 | 01:00 | 81 | M3.0 | S20W13 | 5060 |
| 1988-07-24 | 06:37 | 06:49 | 107 | M2.8 | S21E55 | 5084 |
| 1988-07-11 | 00:29 | 00:39 | 51 | M2.7 | S18E89 | 5074 |
| 1988-07-30 | 08:47 | 08:48 | 25 | M1.8 | N28E41 | 5092 |
| 1988-07-09 | 23:37 | 23:46 | 21 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 1988-07-29 | 21:31 | 21:33 | 44 | M1.6 | N32E61 | 5092 |
| 1988-07-25 | 19:28 | 20:07 | 79 | M1.5 | S27E50 | 5084 |
| 1988-07-07 | 05:58 | 06:02 | 12 | M1.1 | N13W72 | 5062 |
| 1988-07-08 | 07:54 | 07:56 | 14 | M1.1 | S20W82 | 5060 |
| 1988-07-13 | 00:28 | 00:32 | 12 | M1.1 | N28W02 | 5073 |
| 1988-07-08 | 03:35 | 03:35 | 8 | C9.4 | S13W80 | 5060 |
| 1988-07-19 | 00:27 | 00:30 | 24 | C9.4 | S24W19 | 5075 |
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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204 flares of class C or larger in July 1988; by M/X count it ranks 204 of 565 months.