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Solar flares in July 2012
C-class202
M-class46
X-class2
LargestX1.42012-07-12
Sunspot number99.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | 56 | 2 | 0 | M9.3 |
| July 2012 | 202 | 46 | 2 | X1.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-07-12 | 15:37 | 16:49 | 113 | X1.4 | N13W15 | 11522 |
| 2012-07-06 | 23:01 | 23:08 | 13 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2012-07-19 | 04:17 | 05:58 | 159 | M7.7 | – | – |
| 2012-07-08 | 16:23 | 16:32 | 19 | M6.9 | S14W83 | 11514 |
| 2012-07-05 | 11:39 | 11:44 | 10 | M6.2 | S20W32 | 11515 |
| 2012-07-28 | 20:44 | 20:56 | 20 | M6.1 | S25E54 | 11532 |
| 2012-07-31 | 10:46 | 11:30 | 100 | M5.7 | S23E85 | – |
| 2012-07-02 | 10:43 | 10:52 | 14 | M5.6 | S22E02 | 11514 |
| 2012-07-04 | 09:47 | 09:55 | 10 | M5.3 | S20W18 | 11515 |
| 2012-07-05 | 03:25 | 03:36 | 14 | M4.7 | – | – |
| 2012-07-04 | 22:03 | 22:09 | 12 | M4.6 | – | – |
| 2012-07-02 | 19:59 | 20:07 | 14 | M3.8 | S17W01 | 11515 |
| 2012-07-01 | 19:11 | 19:18 | 10 | M2.9 | N14E04 | 11513 |
| 2012-07-06 | 01:37 | 01:40 | 5 | M2.9 | S18W41 | 11515 |
| 2012-07-27 | 17:17 | 17:26 | 15 | M2.8 | S22E71 | 11532 |
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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250 flares of class C or larger in July 2012; by M/X count it ranks 45 of 565 months.