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Solar flares in July 2005
C-class81
M-class19
X-class2
LargestX1.32005-07-30
Sunspot number68.7NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2004 | 154 | 33 | 6 | X3.6 |
| July 2005 | 81 | 19 | 2 | X1.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-07-30 | 06:17 | 06:35 | 44 | X1.3 | N12E60 | 10792 |
| 2005-07-14 | 10:16 | 10:55 | 73 | X1.2 | N11W90 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-14 | 05:57 | 07:25 | 106 | M9.1 | N09W90 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-13 | 14:01 | 14:49 | 97 | M5.0 | N11W90 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-07 | 16:07 | 16:29 | 33 | M4.9 | – | 10786 |
| 2005-07-28 | 21:39 | 22:08 | 45 | M4.8 | N09E82 | 10792 |
| 2005-07-27 | 04:33 | 05:02 | 57 | M3.7 | N11E90 | 10792 |
| 2005-07-13 | 12:03 | 12:19 | 21 | M3.2 | N08W79 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-09 | 21:47 | 22:06 | 32 | M2.8 | N12W28 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-12 | 15:47 | 16:24 | 140 | M1.5 | N09W67 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-12 | 22:35 | 22:52 | 27 | M1.3 | N09W72 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-14 | 17:16 | 17:25 | 12 | M1.3 | N09W90 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-13 | 19:02 | 19:09 | 11 | M1.2 | N09W90 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-13 | 21:49 | 21:54 | 9 | M1.2 | N08W90 | 10786 |
| 2005-07-13 | 02:35 | 03:16 | 72 | M1.1 | N11W82 | 10786 |
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 July 2005; by M/X count it ranks 157 of 565 months.