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Solar flares in August 2022
C-class224
M-class29
X-class0
LargestM8.62022-08-29
Sunspot number69.7NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | 41 | 1 | 0 | M4.7 |
| August 2022 | 224 | 29 | 0 | M8.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-29 | 10:48 | 11:07 | 23 | M8.6 | – | – |
| 2022-08-26 | 12:08 | 12:14 | 12 | M7.2 | – | – |
| 2022-08-28 | 15:48 | 16:19 | 57 | M6.7 | – | – |
| 2022-08-26 | 12:24 | 12:31 | 13 | M5.3 | – | – |
| 2022-08-16 | 07:52 | 07:58 | 12 | M5.0 | – | – |
| 2022-08-27 | 01:52 | 02:40 | 72 | M4.8 | – | – |
| 2022-08-28 | 18:20 | 18:32 | 29 | M4.6 | – | – |
| 2022-08-29 | 18:45 | 18:57 | 22 | M4.6 | – | – |
| 2022-08-29 | 16:11 | 16:35 | 74 | M4.2 | – | – |
| 2022-08-29 | 03:24 | 03:38 | 22 | M3.3 | – | – |
| 2022-08-29 | 14:46 | 14:56 | 21 | M2.5 | – | – |
| 2022-08-26 | 10:41 | 10:55 | 23 | M2.1 | – | – |
| 2022-08-17 | 13:26 | 13:45 | 23 | M2.0 | – | – |
| 2022-08-16 | 21:10 | 21:21 | 17 | M1.8 | – | – |
| 2022-08-25 | 19:39 | 19:51 | 22 | M1.8 | – | – |
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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253 flares of class C or larger in August 2022; by M/X count it ranks 108 of 565 months.