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Solar flares in January 2004
C-class83
M-class12
X-class0
LargestM8.32004-01-07
Sunspot number62.3NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2003 | 112 | 8 | 0 | M4.9 |
| January 2004 | 83 | 12 | 0 | M8.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-01-07 | 10:14 | 10:27 | 19 | M8.3 | N06E75 | 10537 |
| 2004-01-05 | 02:50 | 03:45 | 150 | M6.9 | – | – |
| 2004-01-20 | 07:29 | 07:43 | 18 | M6.1 | S15W13 | 10540 |
| 2004-01-06 | 06:13 | 06:29 | 23 | M5.8 | N05E90 | 10537 |
| 2004-01-17 | 17:35 | 17:50 | 24 | M5.0 | S15E19 | 10540 |
| 2004-01-07 | 03:43 | 04:04 | 38 | M4.5 | N02E76 | 10537 |
| 2004-01-09 | 01:33 | 01:44 | 21 | M3.2 | N02E49 | 10537 |
| 2004-01-18 | 00:07 | 00:17 | 14 | M1.4 | S15E18 | 10540 |
| 2004-01-08 | 04:53 | 05:07 | 28 | M1.3 | N03E63 | 10537 |
| 2004-01-09 | 01:13 | 01:22 | 14 | M1.1 | N03E49 | 10537 |
| 2004-01-19 | 05:25 | 05:32 | 10 | M1.0 | S16E04 | 10540 |
| 2004-01-19 | 12:30 | 12:40 | 16 | M1.0 | S16W00 | 10540 |
| 2004-01-19 | 19:54 | 20:02 | 14 | C8.2 | S16W05 | 10540 |
| 2004-01-01 | 06:04 | 06:54 | 56 | C8.0 | – | – |
| 2004-01-10 | 05:05 | 05:13 | 17 | C7.7 | S12W32 | 10536 |
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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95 flares of class C or larger in January 2004; by M/X count it ranks 218 of 565 months.