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Solar flares in January 2026
C-class230
M-class7
X-class1
LargestX1.92026-01-18
Sunspot number119.2NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | 232 | 40 | 3 | X1.8 |
| January 2026 | 230 | 7 | 1 | X1.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-18 | 17:27 | 18:09 | 84 | X1.9 | – | – |
| 2026-01-21 | 06:54 | 07:12 | 28 | M3.4 | – | – |
| 2026-01-11 | 21:53 | 23:14 | 158 | M3.3 | – | – |
| 2026-01-17 | 10:19 | 10:29 | 13 | M2.1 | – | – |
| 2026-01-14 | 20:10 | 20:33 | 42 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 2026-01-17 | 23:46 | 23:51 | 8 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2026-01-19 | 11:09 | 11:19 | 13 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2026-01-21 | 01:15 | 01:35 | 43 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2026-01-15 | 06:20 | 06:36 | 40 | C9.7 | – | – |
| 2026-01-01 | 02:15 | 02:25 | 18 | C9.6 | – | – |
| 2026-01-14 | 03:34 | 03:50 | 20 | C9.6 | – | – |
| 2026-01-22 | 19:43 | 19:54 | 17 | C9.5 | – | – |
| 2026-01-26 | 13:24 | 13:39 | 27 | C8.8 | – | – |
| 2026-01-21 | 19:29 | 19:38 | 16 | C8.6 | – | – |
| 2026-01-17 | 23:32 | 23:42 | – | C8.4 | – | – |
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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238 flares of class C or larger in January 2026; by M/X count it ranks 275 of 565 months.