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Solar flares in January 2005
C-class102
M-class21
X-class6
LargestX7.12005-01-20
Sunspot number52.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2004 | 83 | 12 | 0 | M8.3 |
| January 2005 | 102 | 21 | 6 | X7.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-01-20 | 06:36 | 07:01 | 50 | X7.1 | N14W61 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-17 | 06:59 | 09:52 | 188 | X3.8 | N15W25 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-15 | 22:25 | 23:02 | 66 | X2.6 | N15W05 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-01 | 00:01 | 00:31 | 38 | X1.7 | N06E34 | 10715 |
| 2005-01-19 | 08:03 | 08:22 | 37 | X1.3 | N15W51 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-15 | 00:22 | 00:43 | 40 | X1.2 | N14E08 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-15 | 05:54 | 06:38 | 83 | M8.6 | N16E04 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-15 | 04:26 | 04:31 | 10 | M8.4 | N14E06 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-19 | 06:58 | 07:31 | 57 | M6.7 | N16W53 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-18 | 15:38 | 15:51 | 21 | M4.6 | N15W42 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-15 | 14:08 | 14:23 | 31 | M3.2 | S08W12 | 10718 |
| 2005-01-19 | 10:19 | 10:24 | 10 | M2.7 | N17W52 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-17 | 03:10 | 03:21 | 22 | M2.6 | N15W21 | 10720 |
| 2005-01-09 | 08:25 | 08:51 | 44 | M2.4 | S09E70 | 10719 |
| 2005-01-16 | 21:55 | 22:03 | 27 | M2.4 | N15W19 | 10720 |
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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129 flares of class C or larger in January 2005; by M/X count it ranks 116 of 565 months.