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Solar flares in December 2006
C-class53
M-class5
X-class4
LargestX9.02006-12-05
Sunspot number22.2NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2005 | 27 | 4 | 0 | M7.8 |
| December 2006 | 53 | 5 | 4 | X9.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-12-05 | 10:18 | 10:35 | 27 | X9.0 | S07E68 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-06 | 18:29 | 18:47 | 31 | X6.5 | S05E64 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-13 | 02:14 | 02:40 | 43 | X3.4 | S06W23 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-14 | 21:07 | 22:15 | 79 | X1.5 | S06W46 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-06 | 08:02 | 08:23 | 61 | M6.0 | S04E63 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-06 | 20:14 | 20:19 | 8 | M3.5 | S06E58 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-07 | 18:20 | 19:13 | 73 | M2.0 | S06E45 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-05 | 07:45 | 08:03 | 21 | M1.8 | S07E73 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-06 | 01:30 | 02:20 | 84 | M1.1 | – | 10930 |
| 2006-12-06 | 21:44 | 21:52 | 11 | C7.4 | S06E57 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-07 | 04:27 | 04:45 | 42 | C6.1 | S07E52 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-05 | 19:49 | 20:07 | 25 | C5.8 | S05E68 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-11 | 07:54 | 08:18 | 28 | C5.7 | S04W02 | 10930 |
| 2006-12-04 | 14:26 | 14:39 | 29 | C4.9 | – | – |
| 2006-12-06 | 12:53 | 12:58 | 10 | C4.8 | S07E61 | 10930 |
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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62 flares of class C or larger in December 2006; by M/X count it ranks 258 of 565 months.