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Solar flares in January 2025
C-class232
M-class40
X-class3
LargestX1.82025-01-04
Sunspot number145.2NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2024 | 294 | 35 | 0 | M6.8 |
| January 2025 | 232 | 40 | 3 | X1.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-04 | 12:35 | 12:48 | 20 | X1.8 | – | – |
| 2025-01-03 | 11:29 | 11:39 | 19 | X1.2 | – | – |
| 2025-01-03 | 22:32 | 22:41 | 18 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2025-01-04 | 04:58 | 05:18 | 28 | M7.7 | – | – |
| 2025-01-17 | 13:24 | 13:35 | 14 | M7.4 | – | – |
| 2025-01-31 | 13:40 | 14:06 | 44 | M6.7 | – | – |
| 2025-01-03 | 23:50 | 23:56 | 14 | M5.9 | – | – |
| 2025-01-06 | 16:12 | 16:24 | 17 | M4.9 | – | – |
| 2025-01-05 | 02:14 | 02:39 | 41 | M4.1 | – | – |
| 2025-01-05 | 09:08 | 09:36 | 42 | M4.1 | – | – |
| 2025-01-21 | 10:08 | 10:39 | 51 | M3.3 | – | – |
| 2025-01-06 | 01:30 | 01:52 | 37 | M3.1 | – | – |
| 2025-01-24 | 20:48 | 21:04 | 28 | M2.7 | – | – |
| 2025-01-27 | 07:52 | 08:12 | 40 | M2.6 | – | – |
| 2025-01-05 | 15:19 | 15:37 | 23 | M2.5 | – | – |
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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275 flares of class C or larger in January 2025; by M/X count it ranks 59 of 565 months.