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Solar flares in July 1989
C-class170
M-class8
X-class1
LargestX2.61989-07-25
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1988 | 191 | 13 | 0 | M4.4 |
| July 1989 | 170 | 8 | 1 | X2.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-07-25 | 08:39 | 08:43 | 29 | X2.6 | N25W84 | 5603 |
| 1989-07-03 | 23:59 | 00:01 | 60 | M7.4 | N22E52 | 5575 |
| 1989-07-09 | 00:52 | 01:25 | 80 | M5.1 | S20W35 | 5572 |
| 1989-07-20 | 20:25 | 20:27 | 23 | M3.3 | S16E09 | 5597 |
| 1989-07-31 | 20:58 | 20:58 | 27 | M1.5 | S16E32 | 5612 |
| 1989-07-21 | 05:44 | 05:50 | 22 | M1.4 | S15E08 | 5597 |
| 1989-07-05 | 16:25 | 16:47 | 58 | M1.1 | N23E32 | 5575 |
| 1989-07-20 | 11:06 | 11:32 | 59 | M1.0 | N24E65 | 5691 |
| 1989-07-31 | 23:15 | 23:16 | 12 | M1.0 | S10E76 | 5623 |
| 1989-07-05 | 07:53 | 07:56 | 36 | C9.6 | N22E37 | 5575 |
| 1989-07-31 | 17:52 | 17:54 | 18 | C9.6 | S11E79 | 5623 |
| 1989-07-31 | 07:03 | 07:09 | 43 | C8.7 | S17E36 | 5612 |
| 1989-07-31 | 18:16 | 18:25 | 22 | C8.4 | – | 5623 |
| 1989-07-26 | 04:54 | 05:17 | 51 | C7.8 | – | – |
| 1989-07-04 | 05:18 | 05:36 | 53 | C7.3 | – | – |
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 July 1989; by M/X count it ranks 251 of 565 months.