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Solar flares in July 2000
C-class205
M-class51
X-class3
LargestX5.72000-07-14
Sunspot number236.7NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | 199 | 23 | 0 | M5.8 |
| July 2000 | 205 | 51 | 3 | X5.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-07-14 | 10:03 | 10:24 | 40 | X5.7 | N22W07 | 9077 |
| 2000-07-12 | 10:18 | 10:37 | 28 | X1.9 | N17E27 | 9077 |
| 2000-07-25 | 02:43 | 02:49 | 11 | M8.0 | N06W08 | 9097 |
| 2000-07-19 | 06:45 | 07:26 | 65 | M6.4 | S21E12 | 9087 |
| 2000-07-09 | 07:15 | 07:23 | 11 | M5.7 | N16E72 | 9077 |
| 2000-07-10 | 21:05 | 21:42 | 82 | M5.7 | N18E49 | 9077 |
| 2000-07-12 | 18:41 | 18:49 | 26 | M5.7 | N16W64 | 9070 |
| 2000-07-16 | 01:59 | 02:03 | 9 | M5.5 | N09E81 | 9090 |
| 2000-07-21 | 14:30 | 14:37 | 13 | M5.5 | – | 9090 |
| 2000-07-20 | 20:22 | 20:25 | 6 | M5.0 | S15W11 | 9087 |
| 2000-07-11 | 11:32 | 11:41 | 20 | M4.2 | – | 9077 |
| 2000-07-14 | 13:44 | 13:52 | 16 | M3.7 | N20W08 | 9077 |
| 2000-07-22 | 11:17 | 11:34 | 45 | M3.7 | N14W56 | 9085 |
| 2000-07-25 | 04:40 | 04:56 | 24 | M3.7 | S13W71 | 9087 |
| 2000-07-20 | 09:21 | 10:06 | 78 | M3.6 | S12W08 | 9087 |
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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259 flares of class C or larger in July 2000; by M/X count it ranks 30 of 565 months.