Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 1988
C1639
M193
X13
LargestX5.61988-06-24
M/X flares by month
- January 1988
- February 1988
- March 1988
- April 1988
- May 1988
- June 1988
- July 1988
- August 1988
- September 1988
- October 1988
- November 1988
- December 1988
Nearby years (M + X)
112
121
16
22
30
206
679
289
644
212
74
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-06-24 | 16:44 | 16:48 | 94 | X5.6 | – | 5047 |
| 1988-12-16 | 08:38 | 08:41 | 12 | X4.7 | N26E37 | 5278 |
| 1988-10-03 | 14:53 | 15:11 | 49 | X3.2 | S27W16 | 5171 |
| 1988-10-12 | 04:57 | 05:02 | 73 | X2.5 | S20W66 | 5175 |
| 1988-06-24 | 16:03 | 16:48 | 51 | X2.4 | S17W52 | 5047 |
| 1988-06-23 | 08:56 | 09:27 | 67 | X1.6 | S19W34 | 5047 |
| 1988-01-02 | 21:11 | 21:35 | 178 | X1.4 | S34W18 | 4912 |
| 1988-12-30 | 17:25 | 18:16 | 143 | X1.4 | S19W30 | 5292 |
| 1988-06-24 | 04:18 | 04:30 | 163 | X1.3 | S18W45 | 5047 |
| 1988-04-14 | 19:34 | 19:42 | 43 | X1.2 | N25E37 | 4990 |
| 1988-10-03 | 23:22 | 23:34 | 57 | X1.1 | S27W20 | 5171 |
| 1988-12-15 | 04:46 | 05:05 | 83 | X1.1 | N27E59 | 5278 |
| 1988-12-18 | 16:51 | 17:14 | 114 | X1.1 | S31W40 | 5273 |
| 1988-11-09 | 12:03 | 12:31 | 54 | M9.7 | N13W29 | 5218 |
| 1988-11-10 | 06:04 | 06:13 | 41 | M9.5 | N13E83 | 5231 |
| 1988-06-30 | 09:04 | 09:06 | 12 | M9.2 | S16E22 | 5060 |
| 1988-03-16 | 18:38 | 18:54 | 38 | M8.2 | S24E21 | 4964 |
| 1988-06-23 | 17:53 | 17:57 | 55 | M8.1 | S17W35 | 5047 |
| 1988-09-27 | 16:07 | 16:16 | 70 | M7.9 | S27E65 | 5171 |
| 1988-12-20 | 12:18 | 12:44 | 194 | M7.3 | – | – |
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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1,845 flares of class C+ in 1988: 193 M-class and 13 X-class.