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Solar flares in February 2013
C-class30
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM1.92013-02-17
Sunspot number60.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | 29 | 1 | 0 | M1.0 |
| February 2013 | 30 | 1 | 0 | M1.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-17 | 15:45 | 15:50 | 7 | M1.9 | N12E22 | 11675 |
| 2013-02-06 | 00:04 | 00:21 | 37 | C8.8 | N22E19 | 11667 |
| 2013-02-03 | 05:56 | 06:10 | 19 | C8.4 | N23E53 | 11667 |
| 2013-02-20 | 11:08 | 11:11 | 5 | C8.2 | N12W44 | 11678 |
| 2013-02-05 | 08:12 | 08:19 | 10 | C6.3 | N09E63 | 11669 |
| 2013-02-23 | 15:56 | 16:09 | 24 | C4.8 | – | – |
| 2013-02-20 | 14:52 | 14:56 | 6 | C3.0 | N11W47 | 11678 |
| 2013-02-02 | 19:48 | 19:58 | 19 | C2.9 | N21E61 | 11667 |
| 2013-02-23 | 18:45 | 18:56 | 24 | C2.9 | – | – |
| 2013-02-24 | 13:17 | 14:35 | 100 | C2.6 | – | – |
| 2013-02-17 | 15:26 | 15:40 | 17 | C2.5 | N12E22 | 11675 |
| 2013-02-21 | 04:56 | 05:05 | 21 | C2.5 | N09W57 | 11678 |
| 2013-02-09 | 05:30 | 06:40 | 116 | C2.4 | N20W09 | – |
| 2013-02-03 | 02:16 | 02:24 | 13 | C2.2 | N22E55 | 11667 |
| 2013-02-19 | 10:09 | 10:51 | 77 | C2.1 | – | – |
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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31 flares of class C or larger in February 2013; by M/X count it ranks 437 of 565 months.