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Solar flares in August 2006
C-class25
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC4.72006-08-21
Sunspot number22.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2005 | 29 | 8 | 0 | M6.4 |
| August 2006 | 25 | 0 | 0 | C4.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-08-21 | 19:07 | 19:23 | 25 | C4.7 | S14W90 | 10904 |
| 2006-08-20 | 21:02 | 21:09 | 13 | C4.3 | S13W75 | 10904 |
| 2006-08-10 | 18:01 | 18:08 | 12 | C4.2 | S13E65 | 10904 |
| 2006-08-19 | 11:16 | 11:24 | 13 | C3.8 | S09W90 | 10903 |
| 2006-08-21 | 02:20 | 02:26 | 13 | C3.8 | S08E78 | – |
| 2006-08-16 | 14:37 | 16:17 | 285 | C3.6 | – | 10904 |
| 2006-08-21 | 00:46 | 00:50 | 7 | C3.6 | S08E78 | – |
| 2006-08-16 | 18:44 | 18:47 | 6 | C3.5 | S12W23 | 10904 |
| 2006-08-21 | 04:36 | 04:49 | 35 | C3.0 | S09E80 | – |
| 2006-08-20 | 16:27 | 16:32 | 7 | C2.9 | S16W75 | 10904 |
| 2006-08-11 | 00:21 | 00:41 | 23 | C2.8 | S13E61 | 10904 |
| 2006-08-21 | 12:08 | 12:19 | 22 | C2.6 | S08E76 | – |
| 2006-08-26 | 19:52 | 20:07 | 40 | C2.5 | S10E08 | 10905 |
| 2006-08-19 | 21:13 | 21:19 | 10 | C2.2 | S13W59 | 10904 |
| 2006-08-11 | 08:00 | 08:04 | 6 | C2.1 | S13E60 | 10904 |
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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25 flares of class C or larger in August 2006; by M/X count it ranks 510 of 565 months.