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Solar flares in August 2005
C-class29
M-class8
X-class0
LargestM6.42005-08-25
Sunspot number65.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | 111 | 26 | 2 | X1.8 |
| August 2005 | 29 | 8 | 0 | M6.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-08-25 | 04:31 | 04:40 | 14 | M6.4 | N09E80 | 10803 |
| 2005-08-22 | 16:46 | 17:27 | 76 | M5.6 | S13W65 | 10798 |
| 2005-08-02 | 18:22 | 18:31 | 15 | M4.2 | S13E47 | 10794 |
| 2005-08-03 | 04:54 | 05:06 | 17 | M3.4 | S13E45 | 10794 |
| 2005-08-23 | 14:19 | 14:44 | 109 | M2.7 | S14W90 | 10798 |
| 2005-08-22 | 00:44 | 01:33 | 94 | M2.6 | S11W54 | 10798 |
| 2005-08-28 | 10:17 | 10:28 | 20 | M1.6 | N09E36 | 10803 |
| 2005-08-01 | 13:00 | 13:51 | 89 | M1.0 | N13E32 | 10792 |
| 2005-08-03 | 13:48 | 14:07 | 30 | C9.3 | S14E36 | 10794 |
| 2005-08-02 | 12:38 | 12:45 | 23 | C8.7 | – | – |
| 2005-08-04 | 05:25 | 05:59 | 57 | C8.4 | S15E28 | 10794 |
| 2005-08-02 | 20:11 | 20:16 | 8 | C6.7 | N10E16 | 10792 |
| 2005-08-29 | 21:48 | 21:55 | 14 | C6.5 | S16E49 | 10806 |
| 2005-08-01 | 12:14 | 12:21 | 13 | C5.8 | S12E61 | 10794 |
| 2005-08-24 | 06:13 | 07:06 | 75 | C4.7 | S11W90 | 10798 |
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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37 flares of class C or larger in August 2005; by M/X count it ranks 269 of 565 months.