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Solar flares in March 2022
C-class132
M-class14
X-class1
LargestX1.32022-03-30
Sunspot number69.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C1.6 |
| March 2022 | 132 | 14 | 1 | X1.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-30 | 17:21 | 17:37 | 24 | X1.3 | – | – |
| 2022-03-31 | 18:17 | 18:35 | 27 | M9.6 | – | – |
| 2022-03-28 | 10:58 | 11:29 | 46 | M4.0 | – | – |
| 2022-03-11 | 22:13 | 22:32 | 24 | M2.2 | – | – |
| 2022-03-29 | 00:57 | 01:11 | 28 | M2.2 | – | – |
| 2022-03-02 | 17:31 | 17:39 | 15 | M2.0 | – | – |
| 2022-03-14 | 08:29 | 08:40 | 15 | M2.0 | – | – |
| 2022-03-29 | 21:43 | 21:52 | 13 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 2022-03-15 | 22:39 | 22:46 | 12 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 2022-03-15 | 12:33 | 12:39 | 10 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 2022-03-28 | 20:49 | 20:59 | 19 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2022-03-29 | 01:48 | 01:58 | 14 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2022-03-28 | 17:32 | 17:41 | 14 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2022-03-28 | 19:08 | 19:23 | 31 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2022-03-29 | 09:17 | 09:38 | 37 | M1.0 | – | – |
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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147 flares of class C or larger in March 2022; by M/X count it ranks 190 of 565 months.