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Solar flares in January 2014
C-class137
M-class26
X-class1
LargestX1.22014-01-07
Sunspot number126.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2013 | 103 | 5 | 0 | M1.8 |
| January 2014 | 137 | 26 | 1 | X1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-07 | 18:04 | 18:32 | 54 | X1.2 | – | – |
| 2014-01-01 | 18:40 | 18:52 | 23 | M9.9 | S14W47 | 11936 |
| 2014-01-07 | 10:07 | 10:13 | 30 | M7.2 | S13E11 | 11944 |
| 2014-01-30 | 15:48 | 16:11 | 40 | M6.6 | S13E58 | 11967 |
| 2014-01-27 | 22:05 | 22:10 | 10 | M4.9 | – | – |
| 2014-01-28 | 19:00 | 19:40 | 46 | M4.9 | S14E76 | 11967 |
| 2014-01-04 | 18:47 | 19:46 | 96 | M4.0 | – | – |
| 2014-01-08 | 03:39 | 03:47 | 15 | M3.6 | N11W81 | 11947 |
| 2014-01-28 | 07:25 | 07:31 | 9 | M3.6 | – | – |
| 2014-01-28 | 15:24 | 15:26 | 4 | M3.5 | S12E68 | 11967 |
| 2014-01-28 | 22:04 | 22:16 | 16 | M2.6 | S14E75 | 11967 |
| 2014-01-30 | 06:33 | 06:39 | 11 | M2.1 | S15E54 | 11967 |
| 2014-01-04 | 22:12 | 22:52 | 70 | M1.9 | S06E39 | 11944 |
| 2014-01-02 | 02:24 | 02:33 | 32 | M1.7 | S05E76 | 11944 |
| 2014-01-28 | 04:02 | 04:09 | 11 | M1.5 | – | – |
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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164 flares of class C or larger in January 2014; by M/X count it ranks 117 of 565 months.