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Solar flares in January 2016
C-class28
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM2.32016-01-01
Sunspot number50.4NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2015 | 167 | 13 | 0 | M5.6 |
| January 2016 | 28 | 1 | 0 | M2.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 | 23:10 | 00:11 | 111 | M2.3 | – | – |
| 2016-01-28 | 11:48 | 12:02 | 28 | C9.6 | N06W45 | 12488 |
| 2016-01-28 | 05:17 | 05:23 | 11 | C5.2 | – | – |
| 2016-01-29 | 07:57 | 08:18 | 29 | C3.5 | N02W59 | 12488 |
| 2016-01-28 | 21:48 | 21:57 | 14 | C3.3 | N09W50 | 12488 |
| 2016-01-21 | 01:17 | 01:45 | 36 | C2.9 | – | – |
| 2016-01-15 | 02:34 | 02:39 | 7 | C2.8 | – | – |
| 2016-01-28 | 06:52 | 07:02 | 20 | C2.8 | – | – |
| 2016-01-01 | 22:25 | 22:30 | 8 | C2.7 | – | – |
| 2016-01-01 | 09:36 | 09:48 | 20 | C2.4 | S19W71 | 12473 |
| 2016-01-01 | 06:33 | 06:38 | 10 | C2.3 | S19W67 | 12473 |
| 2016-01-29 | 04:15 | 04:29 | 21 | C2.0 | – | – |
| 2016-01-29 | 20:48 | 21:46 | 129 | C2.0 | – | – |
| 2016-01-06 | 11:31 | 11:37 | 8 | C1.8 | – | – |
| 2016-01-15 | 15:18 | 15:25 | 13 | C1.7 | N07W49 | 12480 |
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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29 flares of class C or larger in January 2016; by M/X count it ranks 439 of 565 months.