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Solar flares in March 2004
C-class97
M-class5
X-class0
LargestM2.32004-03-25
Sunspot number81.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2003 | 98 | 7 | 2 | X1.5 |
| March 2004 | 97 | 5 | 0 | M2.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-03-25 | 04:29 | 04:39 | 14 | M2.3 | – | 10582 |
| 2004-03-18 | 05:08 | 05:17 | 19 | M1.6 | – | 10574 |
| 2004-03-18 | 22:26 | 22:36 | 14 | M1.5 | N15E77 | 10578 |
| 2004-03-24 | 23:14 | 23:29 | 21 | M1.5 | N15E90 | 10582 |
| 2004-03-06 | 12:08 | 12:17 | 33 | M1.3 | S15E81 | 10570 |
| 2004-03-22 | 05:48 | 06:16 | 40 | C8.6 | S05W01 | 10574 |
| 2004-03-29 | 23:19 | 23:24 | 9 | C8.2 | N16E12 | 10582 |
| 2004-03-18 | 06:11 | 06:15 | 10 | C8.0 | S05E52 | 10574 |
| 2004-03-24 | 20:07 | 20:18 | 21 | C7.4 | N15E90 | 10582 |
| 2004-03-31 | 20:02 | 20:08 | 8 | C7.4 | N15W11 | 10582 |
| 2004-03-05 | 08:51 | 09:12 | 46 | C6.6 | S15E90 | 10570 |
| 2004-03-21 | 09:39 | 09:52 | 23 | C6.3 | S17W84 | 10576 |
| 2004-03-25 | 07:02 | 07:21 | 34 | C6.1 | N15E90 | 10582 |
| 2004-03-30 | 09:41 | 09:51 | 13 | C5.9 | N15E06 | – |
| 2004-03-24 | 14:17 | 14:26 | 21 | C5.7 | N01W08 | 10577 |
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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102 flares of class C or larger in March 2004; by M/X count it ranks 316 of 565 months.