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Solar flares in April 2006
C-class24
M-class4
X-class0
LargestM7.92006-04-27
Sunspot number55.2NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2005 | 16 | 0 | 0 | C5.3 |
| April 2006 | 24 | 4 | 0 | M7.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-04-27 | 15:22 | 15:52 | 36 | M7.9 | S08E26 | 10875 |
| 2006-04-06 | 05:22 | 05:33 | 14 | M1.4 | – | 10865 |
| 2006-04-26 | 16:51 | 17:02 | 19 | M1.3 | S08E38 | 10875 |
| 2006-04-06 | 20:33 | 20:42 | 17 | M1.2 | S07W61 | 10865 |
| 2006-04-07 | 07:57 | 08:03 | 8 | C9.7 | S16W44 | 10867 |
| 2006-04-26 | 14:32 | 14:53 | 26 | C9.1 | S08E39 | 10875 |
| 2006-04-05 | 15:14 | 15:21 | 10 | C8.1 | S17W22 | 10867 |
| 2006-04-26 | 13:42 | 13:56 | 23 | C7.7 | S08E40 | 10875 |
| 2006-04-30 | 01:33 | 01:57 | 34 | C5.3 | N16E74 | – |
| 2006-04-03 | 21:13 | 21:26 | 23 | C4.0 | S13W21 | 10865 |
| 2006-04-26 | 20:51 | 21:08 | 26 | C3.6 | S07E35 | 10875 |
| 2006-04-05 | 13:01 | 13:07 | 10 | C2.6 | S16W21 | 10867 |
| 2006-04-22 | 16:30 | 16:39 | 19 | C2.6 | S07E90 | – |
| 2006-04-26 | 18:17 | 18:27 | 15 | C2.6 | S09E39 | 10875 |
| 2006-04-11 | 18:08 | 18:39 | 50 | C2.3 | S09E41 | 10871 |
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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28 flares of class C or larger in April 2006; by M/X count it ranks 332 of 565 months.