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Solar flares in December 2024
C-class295
M-class88
X-class3
LargestX2.22024-12-08
Sunspot number134.9NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2023 | 297 | 23 | 2 | X4.9 |
| December 2024 | 295 | 88 | 3 | X2.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-08 | 08:50 | 09:06 | 19 | X2.2 | – | – |
| 2024-12-30 | 04:01 | 04:14 | 36 | X1.6 | – | – |
| 2024-12-29 | 07:08 | 07:17 | 26 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2024-12-23 | 11:06 | 11:12 | 9 | M9.0 | – | – |
| 2024-12-26 | 02:52 | 03:15 | 33 | M7.4 | – | – |
| 2024-12-29 | 15:02 | 15:09 | 19 | M7.2 | – | – |
| 2024-12-11 | 15:32 | 15:49 | 23 | M6.7 | – | – |
| 2024-12-10 | 06:36 | 06:48 | 18 | M6.4 | – | – |
| 2024-12-30 | 16:45 | 16:54 | 15 | M5.0 | – | – |
| 2024-12-25 | 04:46 | 04:49 | 5 | M4.9 | – | – |
| 2024-12-24 | 00:14 | 00:19 | 9 | M4.7 | – | – |
| 2024-12-28 | 11:12 | 11:21 | 18 | M4.6 | – | – |
| 2024-12-24 | 08:28 | 08:41 | 16 | M4.1 | – | – |
| 2024-12-19 | 15:26 | 15:34 | 12 | M3.8 | – | – |
| 2024-12-29 | 05:41 | 05:47 | 16 | M3.5 | – | – |
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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386 flares of class C or larger in December 2024; by M/X count it ranks 12 of 565 months.