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Solar flares in February 2023
C-class222
M-class50
X-class2
LargestX2.22023-02-17
Sunspot number126.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2022 | 109 | 3 | 0 | M1.4 |
| February 2023 | 222 | 50 | 2 | X2.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-17 | 19:38 | 20:16 | 71 | X2.2 | – | – |
| 2023-02-11 | 15:40 | 15:48 | 13 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2023-02-28 | 17:35 | 17:50 | 20 | M8.6 | – | – |
| 2023-02-25 | 18:40 | 19:44 | 106 | M6.3 | – | – |
| 2023-02-21 | 19:57 | 20:17 | 32 | M5.0 | – | – |
| 2023-02-21 | 11:14 | 11:23 | 16 | M4.7 | – | – |
| 2023-02-20 | 14:47 | 14:58 | 15 | M4.4 | – | – |
| 2023-02-07 | 22:46 | 22:58 | 18 | M3.8 | – | – |
| 2023-02-10 | 02:45 | 03:03 | 34 | M3.7 | – | – |
| 2023-02-24 | 20:03 | 20:30 | 85 | M3.7 | – | – |
| 2023-02-12 | 08:35 | 08:48 | 16 | M3.1 | – | – |
| 2023-02-09 | 02:45 | 03:10 | 42 | M3.0 | – | – |
| 2023-02-09 | 08:49 | 09:07 | 34 | M2.8 | – | – |
| 2023-02-14 | 11:59 | 12:12 | 46 | M2.6 | – | – |
| 2023-02-22 | 13:36 | 13:50 | 21 | M2.6 | – | – |
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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274 flares of class C or larger in February 2023; by M/X count it ranks 35 of 565 months.