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Solar flares in December 2022
C-class272
M-class44
X-class0
LargestM6.32022-12-14
Sunspot number110.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | 182 | 8 | 0 | M1.8 |
| December 2022 | 272 | 44 | 0 | M6.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-14 | 14:31 | 14:42 | 17 | M6.3 | – | – |
| 2022-12-15 | 22:20 | 22:40 | 36 | M5.7 | – | – |
| 2022-12-14 | 21:57 | 22:06 | 19 | M4.5 | – | – |
| 2022-12-14 | 12:24 | 12:31 | 13 | M4.1 | – | – |
| 2022-12-16 | 10:02 | 10:19 | 31 | M4.0 | – | – |
| 2022-12-30 | 19:26 | 19:38 | 20 | M3.7 | – | – |
| 2022-12-16 | 01:30 | 02:01 | 59 | M3.5 | – | – |
| 2022-12-14 | 14:54 | 14:59 | 9 | M3.2 | – | – |
| 2022-12-14 | 07:30 | 07:40 | 16 | M2.4 | – | – |
| 2022-12-16 | 14:24 | 14:40 | 39 | M2.4 | – | – |
| 2022-12-29 | 18:26 | 18:33 | 16 | M2.4 | – | – |
| 2022-12-15 | 06:55 | 07:07 | 26 | M2.3 | – | – |
| 2022-12-14 | 17:03 | 17:12 | 19 | M2.2 | – | – |
| 2022-12-14 | 20:52 | 20:58 | 9 | M2.2 | – | – |
| 2022-12-29 | 18:12 | 18:20 | – | M2.1 | – | – |
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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316 flares of class C or larger in December 2022; by M/X count it ranks 56 of 565 months.