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Solar flares in October 2024
C-class186
M-class74
X-class8
LargestX8.92024-10-03
Sunspot number159.4NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2023 | 183 | 6 | 0 | M2.5 |
| October 2024 | 186 | 74 | 8 | X8.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-03 | 12:08 | 12:18 | 18 | X8.9 | – | – |
| 2024-10-01 | 21:58 | 22:20 | 30 | X7.0 | – | – |
| 2024-10-24 | 03:30 | 03:57 | 56 | X3.2 | – | – |
| 2024-10-07 | 19:02 | 19:13 | 28 | X2.1 | – | – |
| 2024-10-31 | 21:12 | 21:20 | 14 | X2.0 | – | – |
| 2024-10-09 | 01:25 | 01:56 | 78 | X1.8 | – | – |
| 2024-10-26 | 06:32 | 07:19 | 82 | X1.8 | – | – |
| 2024-10-09 | 15:44 | 15:47 | 8 | X1.4 | – | – |
| 2024-10-26 | 05:57 | 06:23 | – | M9.5 | – | – |
| 2024-10-09 | 22:59 | 23:12 | 21 | M7.7 | – | – |
| 2024-10-30 | 20:29 | 20:53 | 44 | M7.2 | – | – |
| 2024-10-03 | 20:09 | 20:28 | 30 | M6.7 | – | – |
| 2024-10-19 | 06:48 | 06:56 | 14 | M6.5 | – | – |
| 2024-10-18 | 19:27 | 19:38 | 15 | M4.8 | – | – |
| 2024-10-18 | 23:13 | 23:28 | 24 | M4.7 | – | – |
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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268 flares of class C or larger in October 2024; by M/X count it ranks 16 of 565 months.