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Solar flares in June 2012
C-class144
M-class11
X-class0
LargestM3.32012-06-03
Sunspot number88.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | 32 | 2 | 0 | M2.5 |
| June 2012 | 144 | 11 | 0 | M3.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-03 | 17:48 | 17:55 | 9 | M3.3 | – | – |
| 2012-06-28 | 16:07 | 16:12 | 8 | M2.4 | N16E45 | 11513 |
| 2012-06-29 | 09:13 | 09:20 | 9 | M2.2 | N40E16 | 11513 |
| 2012-06-06 | 19:54 | 20:06 | 19 | M2.1 | S19W05 | 11494 |
| 2012-06-09 | 11:20 | 11:32 | 15 | M1.9 | – | – |
| 2012-06-14 | 12:52 | 14:35 | 184 | M1.9 | S17E06 | 11504 |
| 2012-06-09 | 16:45 | 16:53 | 11 | M1.8 | S17E74 | 11504 |
| 2012-06-30 | 18:26 | 18:32 | 8 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 2012-06-10 | 06:39 | 06:45 | 11 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 2012-06-13 | 11:29 | 13:17 | 182 | M1.2 | S17E21 | 11504 |
| 2012-06-30 | 12:48 | 12:52 | 6 | M1.0 | N17E21 | 11513 |
| 2012-06-07 | 15:29 | 15:43 | 26 | C9.1 | N13W06 | 11499 |
| 2012-06-08 | 02:51 | 03:07 | 31 | C7.7 | – | – |
| 2012-06-13 | 14:41 | 14:48 | 18 | C7.0 | S28W02 | 11507 |
| 2012-06-13 | 19:17 | 19:26 | 38 | C6.8 | S20E20 | 11504 |
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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155 flares of class C or larger in June 2012; by M/X count it ranks 229 of 565 months.