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Solar flares in November 2023
C-class211
M-class16
X-class0
LargestM9.92023-11-28
Sunspot number105.9NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2022 | 165 | 6 | 0 | M5.2 |
| November 2023 | 211 | 16 | 0 | M9.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-28 | 19:35 | 19:50 | 33 | M9.9 | – | – |
| 2023-11-28 | 19:07 | 19:32 | – | M3.5 | – | – |
| 2023-11-05 | 11:34 | 11:43 | 11 | M1.8 | – | – |
| 2023-11-02 | 12:18 | 12:22 | 6 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 2023-11-05 | 14:24 | 14:32 | 11 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 2023-11-23 | 02:59 | 03:38 | 65 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 2023-11-11 | 17:01 | 17:29 | 43 | M1.2 | – | – |
| 2023-11-18 | 05:37 | 05:42 | 12 | M1.2 | – | – |
| 2023-11-18 | 16:34 | 16:44 | 19 | M1.2 | – | – |
| 2023-11-20 | 08:54 | 09:03 | 17 | M1.2 | – | – |
| 2023-11-01 | 06:07 | 06:26 | 41 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2023-11-23 | 14:25 | 14:37 | 16 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2023-11-24 | 09:17 | 09:33 | 25 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2023-11-02 | 19:08 | 19:21 | 19 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2023-11-14 | 22:58 | 23:05 | 10 | 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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227 flares of class C or larger in November 2023; by M/X count it ranks 184 of 565 months.