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Solar flares in January 2022
C-class96
M-class5
X-class0
LargestM5.52022-01-20
Sunspot number57.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | C1.0 |
| January 2022 | 96 | 5 | 0 | M5.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-20 | 05:41 | 06:01 | 30 | M5.5 | – | – |
| 2022-01-14 | 01:47 | 02:03 | 26 | M1.8 | – | – |
| 2022-01-18 | 17:00 | 17:44 | 76 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 2022-01-01 | 07:07 | 07:30 | 34 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2022-01-29 | 22:45 | 23:32 | 98 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2022-01-25 | 23:38 | 23:49 | 15 | C9.9 | – | – |
| 2022-01-29 | 16:47 | 16:55 | 16 | C7.3 | – | – |
| 2022-01-26 | 07:25 | 07:32 | 10 | C7.2 | – | – |
| 2022-01-29 | 12:03 | 12:14 | 28 | C6.9 | – | – |
| 2022-01-30 | 07:12 | 07:19 | 12 | C6.7 | – | – |
| 2022-01-18 | 19:48 | 19:51 | 6 | C5.8 | – | – |
| 2022-01-14 | 13:07 | 13:34 | – | C4.3 | – | – |
| 2022-01-15 | 08:33 | 08:54 | 39 | C4.2 | – | – |
| 2022-01-25 | 10:21 | 10:29 | 14 | C3.7 | – | – |
| 2022-01-14 | 14:16 | 14:23 | 11 | C3.5 | – | – |
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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101 flares of class C or larger in January 2022; by M/X count it ranks 320 of 565 months.