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Solar flares in July 2016
C-class57
M-class7
X-class0
LargestM7.62016-07-23
Sunspot number32.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | 43 | 3 | 0 | M1.7 |
| July 2016 | 57 | 7 | 0 | M7.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-23 | 05:00 | 05:16 | 24 | M7.6 | N02W74 | 12567 |
| 2016-07-23 | 05:27 | 05:31 | 6 | M5.5 | N02W74 | 12567 |
| 2016-07-23 | 01:46 | 02:11 | 37 | M5.0 | – | – |
| 2016-07-24 | 06:09 | 06:20 | 23 | M2.0 | N03W84 | 12567 |
| 2016-07-24 | 17:30 | 17:43 | 42 | M1.9 | – | – |
| 2016-07-21 | 00:42 | 00:46 | 8 | M1.2 | – | – |
| 2016-07-21 | 01:34 | 01:49 | 30 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2016-07-21 | 12:47 | 12:55 | 16 | C9.2 | N01W49 | 12567 |
| 2016-07-10 | 00:53 | 00:59 | 10 | C8.6 | N11E69 | 12564 |
| 2016-07-21 | 11:06 | 11:19 | 16 | C7.2 | N00W48 | 12567 |
| 2016-07-24 | 13:34 | 14:04 | 37 | C6.9 | – | – |
| 2016-07-16 | 06:57 | 07:04 | 10 | C6.8 | N06E26 | 12567 |
| 2016-07-17 | 21:31 | 23:35 | 150 | C6.6 | – | – |
| 2016-07-22 | 06:34 | 06:51 | 24 | C6.6 | N01W59 | 12567 |
| 2016-07-07 | 07:49 | 07:56 | 17 | C5.1 | S19W35 | 12561 |
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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64 flares of class C or larger in July 2016; by M/X count it ranks 287 of 565 months.