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Solar flares in April 2014
C-class169
M-class3
X-class1
LargestX1.32014-04-25
Sunspot number130.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | 168 | 4 | 0 | M6.5 |
| April 2014 | 169 | 3 | 1 | X1.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-04-25 | 00:17 | 00:27 | 21 | X1.3 | S15W90 | 12046 |
| 2014-04-18 | 12:31 | 13:03 | 49 | M7.3 | – | – |
| 2014-04-02 | 13:18 | 14:05 | 70 | M6.5 | N10E62 | 12030 |
| 2014-04-16 | 19:54 | 19:59 | 10 | M1.0 | S14E09 | 12035 |
| 2014-04-11 | 11:17 | 11:24 | 15 | C9.4 | – | – |
| 2014-04-22 | 11:29 | 11:37 | 12 | C8.8 | S09W66 | 12035 |
| 2014-04-15 | 09:15 | 09:23 | 10 | C8.6 | S14E25 | 12035 |
| 2014-04-04 | 13:34 | 13:48 | 22 | C8.3 | S15W20 | 12021 |
| 2014-04-14 | 04:18 | 04:38 | 30 | C7.5 | S18E24 | 12036 |
| 2014-04-16 | 12:42 | 12:51 | 13 | C7.5 | – | – |
| 2014-04-15 | 17:53 | 17:59 | 10 | C7.3 | S15E21 | 12035 |
| 2014-04-20 | 08:07 | 08:13 | 11 | C6.5 | – | – |
| 2014-04-04 | 14:47 | 14:54 | 13 | C6.2 | – | – |
| 2014-04-03 | 04:04 | 04:14 | 22 | C5.5 | N10E50 | 12030 |
| 2014-04-02 | 18:15 | 18:18 | 5 | C5.2 | N09E60 | 12030 |
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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173 flares of class C or larger in April 2014; by M/X count it ranks 336 of 565 months.