Solar Flare WatchHome › Flare history › 2024
Solar flares in August 2024
C-class230
M-class117
X-class4
LargestX1.72024-08-05
Sunspot number203.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | 196 | 25 | 2 | X1.6 |
| August 2024 | 230 | 117 | 4 | X1.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-05 | 13:24 | 13:40 | 29 | X1.7 | – | – |
| 2024-08-08 | 19:01 | 19:35 | 56 | X1.2 | – | – |
| 2024-08-05 | 15:18 | 15:27 | 13 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2024-08-14 | 06:00 | 06:40 | 67 | X1.0 | – | – |
| 2024-08-01 | 06:23 | 07:09 | 75 | M8.2 | – | – |
| 2024-08-02 | 04:23 | 04:55 | 71 | M7.4 | – | – |
| 2024-08-03 | 18:29 | 18:39 | 14 | M7.3 | – | – |
| 2024-08-01 | 01:47 | 01:50 | 6 | M6.3 | – | – |
| 2024-08-05 | 05:13 | 05:23 | 13 | M6.1 | – | – |
| 2024-08-03 | 19:17 | 19:30 | 25 | M5.4 | – | – |
| 2024-08-10 | 02:14 | 02:37 | 37 | M5.3 | – | – |
| 2024-08-14 | 15:39 | 15:49 | 17 | M5.3 | – | – |
| 2024-08-21 | 21:59 | 22:08 | 17 | M5.1 | – | – |
| 2024-08-23 | 20:08 | 20:12 | 9 | M5.1 | – | – |
| 2024-08-07 | 18:31 | 18:54 | 36 | 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.
About this page
351 flares of class C or larger in August 2024; by M/X count it ranks 4 of 565 months.