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Solar flares in November 2001
C-class260
M-class46
X-class2
LargestX1.12001-11-25
Sunspot number178.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2000 | 174 | 17 | 5 | X4.0 |
| November 2001 | 260 | 46 | 2 | X1.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-11-25 | 09:45 | 09:51 | 9 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2001-11-04 | 16:03 | 16:20 | 54 | X1.0 | N06W18 | 9684 |
| 2001-11-22 | 22:32 | 23:30 | 94 | M9.9 | – | 9704 |
| 2001-11-08 | 06:59 | 07:04 | 7 | M9.1 | S19W19 | 9687 |
| 2001-11-28 | 16:26 | 16:35 | 15 | M6.9 | N04E16 | 9715 |
| 2001-11-07 | 19:30 | 20:01 | 56 | M5.7 | S17E44 | 9690 |
| 2001-11-29 | 10:12 | 10:36 | 31 | M5.5 | N04E10 | 9715 |
| 2001-11-08 | 14:59 | 15:35 | 61 | M4.2 | S17E36 | 9690 |
| 2001-11-22 | 20:18 | 20:36 | 34 | M3.8 | S25W67 | 9698 |
| 2001-11-30 | 01:00 | 01:06 | 11 | M3.5 | S06E57 | 9718 |
| 2001-11-01 | 11:25 | 12:10 | 103 | M3.3 | – | 9687 |
| 2001-11-09 | 08:41 | 08:56 | 27 | M3.3 | S18E26 | 9690 |
| 2001-11-09 | 05:20 | 05:39 | 28 | M3.1 | S18E25 | 9690 |
| 2001-11-09 | 09:16 | 09:43 | 45 | M3.0 | – | – |
| 2001-11-30 | 19:55 | 20:01 | 9 | M2.9 | – | 9714 |
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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308 flares of class C or larger in November 2001; by M/X count it ranks 44 of 565 months.