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Solar flares in December 2000
C-class229
M-class7
X-class0
LargestM4.32000-12-27
Sunspot number146.4NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1999 | 169 | 9 | 0 | M5.3 |
| December 2000 | 229 | 7 | 0 | M4.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-12-27 | 15:30 | 15:44 | 23 | M4.3 | S07E73 | 9289 |
| 2000-12-06 | 22:16 | 22:30 | 35 | M1.6 | S10W66 | 9246 |
| 2000-12-12 | 14:37 | 15:07 | 46 | M1.3 | N08E25 | 9267 |
| 2000-12-26 | 16:02 | 16:13 | 17 | M1.3 | S09E90 | 9289 |
| 2000-12-29 | 02:10 | 02:23 | 32 | M1.2 | S08E55 | 9289 |
| 2000-12-29 | 18:42 | 18:48 | 11 | M1.2 | S09E45 | 9289 |
| 2000-12-24 | 11:03 | 11:15 | 19 | M1.1 | S16E63 | 9283 |
| 2000-12-19 | 10:03 | 10:24 | 25 | C9.5 | N07E41 | 9278 |
| 2000-12-24 | 13:32 | 13:38 | 12 | C9.4 | S14E60 | 9283 |
| 2000-12-06 | 15:12 | 15:18 | 10 | C7.1 | – | – |
| 2000-12-18 | 11:03 | 11:11 | 26 | C7.0 | N15E01 | 9269 |
| 2000-12-24 | 01:01 | 01:08 | 14 | C7.0 | S15E66 | 9283 |
| 2000-12-26 | 11:18 | 11:22 | 14 | C6.8 | – | – |
| 2000-12-24 | 06:46 | 06:53 | 12 | C6.6 | S13E64 | 9283 |
| 2000-12-14 | 15:18 | 15:26 | 12 | C6.4 | N08E02 | 9267 |
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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236 flares of class C or larger in December 2000; by M/X count it ranks 279 of 565 months.