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Solar flares in November 2002
C-class202
M-class12
X-class0
LargestM7.42002-11-18
Sunspot number159.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2001 | 260 | 46 | 2 | X1.1 |
| November 2002 | 202 | 12 | 0 | M7.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-11-18 | 02:01 | 02:08 | 10 | M7.4 | S17E56 | 10198 |
| 2002-11-09 | 13:08 | 13:23 | 28 | M4.6 | S12W29 | 10180 |
| 2002-11-11 | 07:25 | 07:33 | 14 | M2.9 | S12W53 | 10180 |
| 2002-11-12 | 18:41 | 18:56 | 22 | M2.9 | S11W76 | 10180 |
| 2002-11-10 | 03:04 | 03:21 | 31 | M2.4 | S12W37 | 10180 |
| 2002-11-15 | 01:06 | 01:24 | 28 | M2.4 | – | – |
| 2002-11-17 | 14:39 | 14:54 | 20 | M2.0 | S18E62 | 10198 |
| 2002-11-11 | 15:11 | 16:20 | 94 | M1.8 | S13W60 | 10180 |
| 2002-11-20 | 17:15 | 18:07 | 54 | M1.4 | S19E24 | 10198 |
| 2002-11-03 | 13:41 | 14:03 | 46 | M1.3 | N14E25 | 10177 |
| 2002-11-13 | 23:03 | 00:17 | 109 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2002-11-14 | 22:21 | 22:26 | 9 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2002-11-12 | 17:58 | 18:18 | 26 | C9.9 | S11W75 | 10180 |
| 2002-11-05 | 21:47 | 22:01 | 31 | C9.5 | N15W07 | 10177 |
| 2002-11-15 | 05:24 | 05:36 | 21 | C8.9 | N13W36 | 10192 |
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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214 flares of class C or larger in November 2002; by M/X count it ranks 217 of 565 months.