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Solar flares in November 2004
C-class103
M-class15
X-class2
LargestX2.52004-11-10
Sunspot number70.5NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2003 | 118 | 24 | 4 | X28.0 |
| November 2004 | 103 | 15 | 2 | X2.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-11-10 | 01:59 | 02:13 | 21 | X2.5 | N09W49 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-07 | 15:42 | 16:06 | 33 | X2.0 | N09W17 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-06 | 00:11 | 00:34 | 31 | M9.3 | N09E05 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-09 | 16:59 | 17:19 | 33 | M8.9 | N08W51 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-06 | 00:44 | 00:57 | 26 | M5.9 | – | 10696 |
| 2004-11-04 | 22:53 | 23:09 | 33 | M5.4 | N08E18 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-03 | 15:35 | 15:47 | 20 | M5.0 | N09E38 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-05 | 11:23 | 11:30 | 10 | M4.0 | N08E15 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-06 | 01:40 | 01:57 | 28 | M3.6 | – | 10696 |
| 2004-11-03 | 01:23 | 01:33 | 14 | M2.8 | N12W75 | 10691 |
| 2004-11-04 | 21:42 | 22:29 | 71 | M2.5 | – | 10696 |
| 2004-11-08 | 15:43 | 15:49 | 9 | M2.3 | N08W36 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-03 | 03:23 | 03:35 | 34 | M1.6 | N09E45 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-06 | 19:38 | 19:53 | 25 | M1.4 | N09W06 | 10696 |
| 2004-11-05 | 19:10 | 19:22 | 22 | M1.2 | N09E07 | 10696 |
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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120 flares of class C or larger in November 2004; by M/X count it ranks 179 of 565 months.