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Solar flares in January 2024
C-class294
M-class35
X-class0
LargestM6.82024-01-29
Sunspot number121.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | 242 | 38 | 3 | X1.9 |
| January 2024 | 294 | 35 | 0 | M6.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-29 | 03:54 | 04:38 | 80 | M6.8 | – | – |
| 2024-01-23 | 03:09 | 03:31 | 28 | M5.1 | – | – |
| 2024-01-01 | 11:54 | 12:25 | 40 | M4.7 | – | – |
| 2024-01-23 | 16:36 | 16:40 | 10 | M4.3 | – | – |
| 2024-01-04 | 01:22 | 01:55 | 49 | M3.8 | – | – |
| 2024-01-22 | 21:14 | 21:21 | 17 | M3.4 | – | – |
| 2024-01-24 | 01:31 | 01:40 | 21 | M2.6 | – | – |
| 2024-01-23 | 07:52 | 08:11 | – | M2.4 | – | – |
| 2024-01-01 | 08:33 | 08:54 | 30 | M2.3 | – | – |
| 2024-01-23 | 08:18 | 08:22 | 6 | M2.3 | – | – |
| 2024-01-22 | 22:19 | 22:22 | 5 | M2.1 | – | – |
| 2024-01-22 | 19:43 | 19:47 | 9 | M2.0 | – | – |
| 2024-01-10 | 23:18 | 23:28 | 16 | M1.9 | – | – |
| 2024-01-22 | 21:36 | 21:43 | 21 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 2024-01-11 | 17:49 | 17:52 | 9 | M1.5 | – | – |
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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329 flares of class C or larger in January 2024; by M/X count it ranks 91 of 565 months.