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Solar flares in April 2026
C-class222
M-class26
X-class2
LargestX2.52026-04-24
Sunspot number91.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | 187 | 34 | 0 | M5.6 |
| April 2026 | 222 | 26 | 2 | X2.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-24 | 08:01 | 08:13 | 17 | X2.5 | – | – |
| 2026-04-24 | 00:51 | 01:07 | 22 | X2.4 | – | – |
| 2026-04-04 | 01:07 | 01:17 | 16 | M7.5 | – | – |
| 2026-04-24 | 17:54 | 18:15 | 36 | M6.4 | – | – |
| 2026-04-26 | 22:51 | 22:57 | 11 | M6.0 | – | – |
| 2026-04-23 | 17:00 | 17:08 | 14 | M4.9 | – | – |
| 2026-04-23 | 08:40 | 08:48 | 13 | M4.3 | – | – |
| 2026-04-02 | 17:24 | 18:15 | 70 | M3.5 | – | – |
| 2026-04-26 | 19:54 | 20:04 | 13 | M2.2 | – | – |
| 2026-04-24 | 08:57 | 09:07 | 22 | M1.9 | – | – |
| 2026-04-04 | 07:38 | 07:58 | 36 | M1.7 | – | – |
| 2026-04-23 | 13:42 | 14:00 | 29 | M1.7 | – | – |
| 2026-04-24 | 12:34 | 13:01 | 40 | M1.7 | – | – |
| 2026-04-26 | 19:18 | 19:24 | 9 | M1.7 | – | – |
| 2026-04-23 | 04:24 | 04:35 | 24 | M1.6 | – | – |
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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250 flares of class C or larger in April 2026; by M/X count it ranks 113 of 565 months.