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Solar flares in July 2004
C-class154
M-class33
X-class6
LargestX3.62004-07-16
Sunspot number87.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | 187 | 7 | 0 | M3.6 |
| July 2004 | 154 | 33 | 6 | X3.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-07-16 | 13:49 | 13:55 | 12 | X3.6 | S10E35 | 10649 |
| 2004-07-15 | 01:30 | 01:41 | 18 | X1.8 | S10E54 | 10649 |
| 2004-07-15 | 18:15 | 18:24 | 13 | X1.6 | S11E45 | 10649 |
| 2004-07-16 | 01:43 | 02:06 | 29 | X1.3 | S11E41 | 10649 |
| 2004-07-16 | 10:32 | 10:41 | 14 | X1.1 | S10E36 | 10649 |
| 2004-07-17 | 07:51 | 07:57 | 8 | X1.0 | S11E24 | 10649 |
| 2004-07-22 | 00:14 | 00:32 | 29 | M9.1 | N03E17 | 10652 |
| 2004-07-20 | 12:22 | 12:32 | 23 | M8.6 | N10E35 | 10652 |
| 2004-07-25 | 05:39 | 05:51 | 19 | M7.1 | N10W30 | 10652 |
| 2004-07-13 | 00:09 | 00:17 | 14 | M6.7 | N14W45 | 10646 |
| 2004-07-13 | 19:24 | 19:32 | 12 | M6.2 | N14W56 | 10646 |
| 2004-07-14 | 05:02 | 05:23 | 25 | M6.2 | N14W63 | 10646 |
| 2004-07-13 | 08:40 | 08:48 | 15 | M5.4 | N14W51 | 10646 |
| 2004-07-13 | 11:59 | 12:08 | 13 | M2.9 | S10E72 | 10649 |
| 2004-07-17 | 16:45 | 16:51 | 12 | M2.5 | S10E18 | 10649 |
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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193 flares of class C or larger in July 2004; by M/X count it ranks 73 of 565 months.