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Solar flares in July 2015
C-class43
M-class3
X-class0
LargestM1.72015-07-06
Sunspot number68.4NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | 78 | 5 | 0 | M6.5 |
| July 2015 | 43 | 3 | 0 | M1.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-06 | 20:32 | 20:40 | 18 | M1.7 | N18E36 | 12381 |
| 2015-07-03 | 12:47 | 12:51 | 6 | M1.5 | S15E68 | 12378 |
| 2015-07-06 | 08:24 | 08:44 | 35 | M1.0 | N17E42 | 12381 |
| 2015-07-06 | 11:36 | 11:42 | 10 | C5.8 | N17E42 | 12381 |
| 2015-07-03 | 02:54 | 03:05 | 15 | C5.6 | S16E75 | 12378 |
| 2015-07-06 | 16:57 | 17:02 | 13 | C4.9 | N17E36 | 12381 |
| 2015-07-02 | 15:23 | 15:30 | 16 | C3.7 | N14E40 | 12376 |
| 2015-07-06 | 16:19 | 16:22 | 6 | C3.5 | N16E38 | 12381 |
| 2015-07-03 | 09:10 | 09:19 | 14 | C3.4 | S14E69 | 12378 |
| 2015-07-07 | 03:58 | 04:09 | 29 | C2.7 | N16E29 | 12381 |
| 2015-07-24 | 17:49 | 17:55 | 11 | C2.6 | S14E67 | 12389 |
| 2015-07-06 | 07:31 | 07:50 | 31 | C2.5 | N17E42 | 12381 |
| 2015-07-06 | 15:26 | 15:31 | 11 | C2.2 | – | – |
| 2015-07-19 | 09:22 | 10:40 | 220 | C2.1 | – | – |
| 2015-07-03 | 05:49 | 05:55 | 13 | C2.0 | S14E73 | 12378 |
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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46 flares of class C or larger in July 2015; by M/X count it ranks 364 of 565 months.