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Solar flares in April 2022
C-class193
M-class29
X-class3
LargestX2.22022-04-20
Sunspot number76.4NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2021 | 21 | 1 | 0 | M1.1 |
| April 2022 | 193 | 29 | 3 | X2.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-20 | 03:41 | 03:57 | 22 | X2.2 | – | – |
| 2022-04-17 | 03:17 | 03:34 | 33 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2022-04-30 | 13:38 | 13:47 | 13 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2022-04-21 | 01:47 | 01:59 | 17 | M9.6 | – | – |
| 2022-04-20 | 01:20 | 01:36 | 23 | M7.2 | – | – |
| 2022-04-30 | 09:48 | 09:58 | 16 | M4.8 | – | – |
| 2022-04-17 | 22:28 | 22:34 | 11 | M4.4 | – | – |
| 2022-04-02 | 17:34 | 17:44 | 16 | M4.3 | – | – |
| 2022-04-02 | 12:56 | 13:55 | 107 | M3.9 | – | – |
| 2022-04-19 | 20:39 | 20:49 | 18 | M3.7 | – | – |
| 2022-04-22 | 13:16 | 13:25 | 13 | M3.4 | – | – |
| 2022-04-02 | 02:39 | 02:56 | 27 | M2.9 | – | – |
| 2022-04-30 | 04:46 | 05:01 | 20 | M2.6 | – | – |
| 2022-04-15 | 11:07 | 11:49 | 81 | M2.2 | – | – |
| 2022-04-15 | 13:47 | 13:59 | 23 | M1.9 | – | – |
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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225 flares of class C or larger in April 2022; by M/X count it ranks 102 of 565 months.