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Solar flares in April 2024
C-class196
M-class50
X-class0
LargestM9.52024-04-30
Sunspot number141.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | 224 | 8 | 0 | M3.0 |
| April 2024 | 196 | 50 | 0 | M9.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-30 | 23:23 | 23:46 | 34 | M9.5 | – | – |
| 2024-04-11 | 16:52 | 17:06 | 18 | M5.4 | – | – |
| 2024-04-14 | 02:24 | 02:32 | 11 | M4.3 | – | – |
| 2024-04-15 | 19:25 | 19:32 | 13 | M4.0 | – | – |
| 2024-04-01 | 01:13 | 01:32 | 43 | M3.9 | – | – |
| 2024-04-29 | 00:54 | 01:11 | 25 | M3.7 | – | – |
| 2024-04-23 | 03:06 | 03:19 | 28 | M3.6 | – | – |
| 2024-04-21 | 21:44 | 21:52 | 12 | M3.4 | – | – |
| 2024-04-23 | 08:07 | 08:21 | 21 | M3.0 | – | – |
| 2024-04-27 | 21:29 | 21:40 | 19 | M3.0 | – | – |
| 2024-04-23 | 17:33 | 17:44 | 18 | M2.9 | – | – |
| 2024-04-22 | 15:41 | 15:50 | 16 | M2.8 | – | – |
| 2024-04-29 | 00:33 | 00:48 | – | M2.5 | – | – |
| 2024-04-13 | 04:58 | 05:02 | 6 | M2.4 | – | – |
| 2024-04-15 | 08:38 | 08:42 | 8 | M2.3 | – | – |
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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246 flares of class C or larger in April 2024; by M/X count it ranks 40 of 565 months.