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Solar flares in July 2006
C-class7
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM2.52006-07-06
Sunspot number23.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | 81 | 19 | 2 | X1.3 |
| July 2006 | 7 | 1 | 0 | M2.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-07-06 | 08:13 | 08:36 | 38 | M2.5 | S09W34 | 10898 |
| 2006-07-07 | 11:59 | 12:04 | 7 | C5.2 | S05W50 | 10898 |
| 2006-07-07 | 00:13 | 00:19 | 8 | C2.6 | – | 10898 |
| 2006-07-07 | 21:42 | 21:47 | 7 | C2.3 | S04W56 | 10898 |
| 2006-07-04 | 19:06 | 20:29 | 155 | C1.4 | – | – |
| 2006-07-03 | 22:09 | 23:04 | 88 | C1.2 | – | 10898 |
| 2006-07-05 | 08:42 | 08:58 | 31 | C1.2 | S10W22 | 10898 |
| 2006-07-24 | 14:46 | 15:01 | 42 | C1.1 | S12E80 | – |
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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8 flares of class C or larger in July 2006; by M/X count it ranks 430 of 565 months.