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Solar flares in January 2006
C-class10
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC4.42006-01-05
Sunspot number26.7NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2005 | 102 | 21 | 6 | X7.1 |
| January 2006 | 10 | 0 | 0 | C4.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-05 | 09:17 | 09:23 | 9 | C4.4 | N14W59 | 10843 |
| 2006-01-22 | 14:01 | 14:10 | 14 | C4.1 | S19W10 | 10848 |
| 2006-01-23 | 22:03 | 22:17 | 30 | C3.0 | S19W28 | 10848 |
| 2006-01-22 | 16:50 | 16:57 | 15 | C2.0 | S19W12 | 10848 |
| 2006-01-22 | 21:44 | 21:50 | 14 | C1.8 | S19W14 | 10848 |
| 2006-01-22 | 21:14 | 21:25 | 13 | C1.7 | S19W15 | 10848 |
| 2006-01-01 | 21:41 | 22:16 | 79 | C1.5 | N16W90 | 10838 |
| 2006-01-22 | 12:32 | 12:43 | 18 | C1.3 | S19W10 | 10848 |
| 2006-01-15 | 14:42 | 14:45 | 5 | C1.0 | S07W04 | – |
| 2006-01-24 | 07:14 | 07:21 | 12 | C1.0 | S18W33 | 10848 |
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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10 flares of class C or larger in January 2006; by M/X count it ranks 506 of 565 months.