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Solar flares in March 2000
C-class302
M-class37
X-class3
LargestX1.82000-03-24
Sunspot number203.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1999 | 113 | 11 | 0 | M6.2 |
| March 2000 | 302 | 37 | 3 | X1.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-03-24 | 07:41 | 07:52 | 18 | X1.8 | N16W82 | 8910 |
| 2000-03-02 | 08:20 | 08:28 | 11 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2000-03-22 | 18:34 | 18:48 | 22 | X1.1 | N14W57 | 8910 |
| 2000-03-02 | 13:35 | 13:43 | 13 | M6.5 | S20W58 | 8882 |
| 2000-03-31 | 10:13 | 10:19 | 11 | M4.1 | N23E65 | 8939 |
| 2000-03-03 | 10:40 | 10:46 | 8 | M4.0 | S12W84 | 8886 |
| 2000-03-18 | 23:53 | 23:57 | 26 | M3.9 | S16W61 | 8906 |
| 2000-03-03 | 02:08 | 02:14 | 14 | M3.8 | S15W60 | 8882 |
| 2000-03-12 | 23:30 | 23:38 | 13 | M3.6 | S15E19 | 8906 |
| 2000-03-30 | 15:58 | 16:07 | 14 | M3.4 | S17E63 | 8936 |
| 2000-03-28 | 01:34 | 01:37 | 5 | M3.1 | S11W73 | 8926 |
| 2000-03-24 | 11:25 | 11:29 | 8 | M2.8 | N21E67 | – |
| 2000-03-18 | 23:13 | 23:33 | 40 | M2.6 | N11W09 | 8910 |
| 2000-03-24 | 15:13 | 15:22 | 12 | M2.6 | – | – |
| 2000-03-20 | 16:37 | 16:44 | 13 | M2.4 | N11W39 | 8910 |
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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342 flares of class C or larger in March 2000; by M/X count it ranks 67 of 565 months.