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Solar flares in July 2026
C-class161
M-class54
X-class1
LargestX1.22026-07-04
Sunspot number80.8NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | 188 | 5 | 0 | M2.4 |
| July 2026 | 161 | 54 | 1 | X1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-04 | 20:29 | 20:41 | 18 | X1.2 | – | – |
| 2026-07-01 | 22:57 | 23:09 | 16 | M8.5 | – | – |
| 2026-07-03 | 17:49 | 18:11 | 43 | M6.7 | – | – |
| 2026-07-03 | 18:57 | 18:59 | 6 | M6.3 | – | – |
| 2026-07-05 | 17:51 | 17:57 | 11 | M5.3 | – | – |
| 2026-07-02 | 01:37 | 01:56 | 27 | M4.2 | – | – |
| 2026-07-07 | 14:09 | 14:19 | 13 | M4.0 | – | – |
| 2026-07-04 | 03:21 | 03:32 | 27 | M3.7 | – | – |
| 2026-07-01 | 18:44 | 19:43 | 71 | M3.5 | – | – |
| 2026-07-22 | 06:27 | 06:35 | 10 | M3.5 | – | – |
| 2026-07-20 | 22:15 | 22:25 | 16 | M3.4 | – | – |
| 2026-07-04 | 11:04 | 11:12 | 15 | M3.2 | – | – |
| 2026-07-04 | 13:41 | 13:51 | 17 | M3.2 | – | – |
| 2026-07-26 | 15:17 | 15:28 | 15 | M3.2 | – | – |
| 2026-07-02 | 10:21 | 10:26 | 7 | M2.8 | – | – |
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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216 flares of class C or larger in July 2026; by M/X count it ranks 29 of 565 months.