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Solar flares in July 2024
C-class243
M-class93
X-class3
LargestX1.92024-07-16
Sunspot number190.3NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | 290 | 50 | 1 | X1.0 |
| July 2024 | 243 | 93 | 3 | X1.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-16 | 13:11 | 13:26 | 24 | X1.9 | – | – |
| 2024-07-29 | 02:33 | 02:37 | 9 | X1.5 | – | – |
| 2024-07-14 | 02:23 | 02:34 | 25 | X1.2 | – | – |
| 2024-07-28 | 01:53 | 01:57 | 7 | M9.9 | – | – |
| 2024-07-30 | 19:25 | 19:38 | 38 | M9.5 | – | – |
| 2024-07-29 | 12:47 | 12:55 | 16 | M8.7 | – | – |
| 2024-07-28 | 01:39 | 01:51 | – | M7.8 | – | – |
| 2024-07-28 | 10:27 | 10:42 | 26 | M7.7 | – | – |
| 2024-07-31 | 06:28 | 06:46 | 29 | M7.7 | – | – |
| 2024-07-29 | 19:40 | 19:57 | 29 | M6.4 | – | – |
| 2024-07-31 | 12:47 | 13:05 | – | M6.0 | – | – |
| 2024-07-31 | 18:07 | 18:37 | 49 | M5.4 | – | – |
| 2024-07-13 | 12:21 | 12:42 | 36 | M5.3 | – | – |
| 2024-07-13 | 22:44 | 23:01 | 27 | M5.0 | – | – |
| 2024-07-17 | 06:26 | 06:39 | – | M5.0 | – | – |
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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339 flares of class C or larger in July 2024; by M/X count it ranks 10 of 565 months.