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Solar flares in November 1988
C-class182
M-class34
X-class0
LargestM9.71988-11-09
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1987 | 57 | 10 | 0 | M3.5 |
| November 1988 | 182 | 34 | 0 | M9.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-11-09 | 12:03 | 12:31 | 54 | M9.7 | N13W29 | 5218 |
| 1988-11-10 | 06:04 | 06:13 | 41 | M9.5 | N13E83 | 5231 |
| 1988-11-13 | 04:50 | 05:37 | 109 | M7.0 | N33E37 | 5229 |
| 1988-11-27 | 22:07 | 22:30 | 95 | M6.5 | S18E45 | 5254 |
| 1988-11-12 | 16:05 | 16:08 | 60 | M5.1 | N35E44 | 5229 |
| 1988-11-06 | 18:20 | 18:23 | 40 | M4.9 | S20W37 | 5212 |
| 1988-11-16 | 04:15 | – | 35 | M4.7 | N33W13 | 5229 |
| 1988-11-09 | 19:32 | 19:34 | 33 | M4.5 | N13W30 | 5218 |
| 1988-11-14 | 19:44 | 19:47 | 41 | M4.0 | N23E64 | 5240 |
| 1988-11-13 | 21:48 | 22:05 | 64 | M3.8 | N34E27 | 5229 |
| 1988-11-01 | 10:55 | 10:59 | 23 | M3.4 | N14E81 | 5218 |
| 1988-11-13 | 16:28 | 16:33 | 54 | M3.4 | N31E24 | 5229 |
| 1988-11-14 | 16:40 | 16:46 | 43 | M3.4 | N31E09 | 5229 |
| 1988-11-13 | 22:52 | 23:09 | 73 | M3.2 | S23W27 | 5227 |
| 1988-11-07 | 11:05 | 11:05 | 0 | M3.0 | S17W47 | 5212 |
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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216 flares of class C or larger in November 1988; by M/X count it ranks 92 of 565 months.