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Solar flares in February 2026
C-class128
M-class78
X-class6
LargestX8.12026-02-01
Sunspot number73.5NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | 257 | 49 | 1 | X1.9 |
| February 2026 | 128 | 78 | 6 | X8.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-01 | 23:44 | 23:57 | 20 | X8.1 | – | – |
| 2026-02-04 | 12:02 | 12:13 | 16 | X4.2 | – | – |
| 2026-02-02 | 00:31 | 00:36 | 9 | X2.8 | – | – |
| 2026-02-02 | 07:39 | 08:14 | 61 | X1.6 | – | – |
| 2026-02-03 | 13:58 | 14:08 | 20 | X1.5 | – | – |
| 2026-02-01 | 12:25 | 12:33 | 12 | X1.0 | – | – |
| 2026-02-03 | 06:43 | 07:01 | 36 | M7.2 | – | – |
| 2026-02-03 | 14:45 | 14:56 | 18 | M7.2 | – | – |
| 2026-02-01 | 11:52 | 12:12 | 28 | M6.7 | – | – |
| 2026-02-02 | 11:15 | 11:24 | 15 | M6.7 | – | – |
| 2026-02-01 | 09:53 | 10:02 | 13 | M6.6 | – | – |
| 2026-02-01 | 12:44 | 12:50 | 12 | M5.8 | – | – |
| 2026-02-02 | 02:45 | 02:51 | 14 | M5.2 | – | – |
| 2026-02-01 | 15:57 | 16:05 | 19 | M5.1 | – | – |
| 2026-02-04 | 02:32 | 02:39 | 23 | M4.8 | – | – |
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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212 flares of class C or larger in February 2026; by M/X count it ranks 15 of 565 months.