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Solar flares in January 2015
C-class167
M-class13
X-class0
LargestM5.62015-01-13
Sunspot number101.3NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2014 | 137 | 26 | 1 | X1.2 |
| January 2015 | 167 | 13 | 0 | M5.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-13 | 04:13 | 04:24 | 25 | M5.6 | N06W70 | 12257 |
| 2015-01-13 | 04:46 | 04:58 | 24 | M4.9 | N06W70 | 12257 |
| 2015-01-30 | 12:10 | 12:16 | 11 | M2.4 | – | – |
| 2015-01-14 | 12:30 | 12:58 | 38 | M2.2 | – | – |
| 2015-01-29 | 11:32 | 11:42 | 20 | M2.1 | S12W06 | 12268 |
| 2015-01-30 | 00:32 | 00:44 | 30 | M2.0 | – | – |
| 2015-01-30 | 05:29 | 05:36 | 66 | M1.7 | N10E58 | 12277 |
| 2015-01-22 | 04:43 | 04:52 | 19 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 2015-01-28 | 04:21 | 04:41 | 34 | M1.4 | S09E09 | 12268 |
| 2015-01-04 | 15:18 | 15:36 | 35 | M1.3 | S07E02 | 12253 |
| 2015-01-03 | 09:40 | 09:47 | 10 | M1.1 | S04E17 | 12253 |
| 2015-01-26 | 16:46 | 16:53 | 12 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2015-01-28 | 21:32 | 21:37 | 8 | M1.0 | N08E73 | 12277 |
| 2015-01-21 | 11:32 | 11:42 | 16 | C9.9 | – | – |
| 2015-01-28 | 05:20 | 05:30 | 18 | C9.8 | S09E09 | 12268 |
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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180 flares of class C or larger in January 2015; by M/X count it ranks 211 of 565 months.