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Solar flares in February 2024
C-class241
M-class44
X-class4
LargestX3.32024-02-09
Sunspot number116.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2023 | 222 | 50 | 2 | X2.2 |
| February 2024 | 241 | 44 | 4 | X3.3 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-09 | 12:53 | 13:14 | 38 | X3.3 | – | – |
| 2024-02-16 | 06:42 | 06:53 | 15 | X2.5 | – | – |
| 2024-02-21 | 22:52 | 23:07 | 21 | X1.8 | – | – |
| 2024-02-22 | 06:17 | 06:32 | 22 | X1.6 | – | – |
| 2024-02-10 | 22:56 | 23:07 | 17 | M9.0 | – | – |
| 2024-02-12 | 03:23 | 03:48 | 29 | M6.5 | – | – |
| 2024-02-07 | 03:04 | 03:31 | 66 | M5.1 | – | – |
| 2024-02-22 | 20:29 | 20:46 | 33 | M4.8 | – | – |
| 2024-02-24 | 06:21 | 06:34 | 22 | M4.5 | – | – |
| 2024-02-06 | 02:37 | 03:12 | 59 | M4.2 | – | – |
| 2024-02-08 | 23:17 | 23:55 | – | M3.9 | – | – |
| 2024-02-24 | 11:03 | 11:18 | 21 | M3.6 | – | – |
| 2024-02-08 | 12:41 | 13:12 | 55 | M3.4 | – | – |
| 2024-02-10 | 03:04 | 03:54 | 84 | M3.4 | – | – |
| 2024-02-09 | 00:36 | 00:41 | 7 | M3.1 | – | – |
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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289 flares of class C or larger in February 2024; by M/X count it ranks 46 of 565 months.