Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 2016
C302
M16
X0
LargestM7.62016-07-23
M/X flares by month
- January 2016
- February 2016
- March 2016
- April 2016
- May 2016
- June 2016
- July 2016
- August 2016
- September 2016
- October 2016
- November 2016
- December 2016
Nearby years (M + X)
119
130
111
221
106
16
54
1
3
2
30
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-23 | 05:00 | 05:16 | 24 | M7.6 | N02W74 | 12567 |
| 2016-04-18 | 00:14 | 00:29 | 25 | M6.7 | N12W62 | 12529 |
| 2016-07-23 | 05:27 | 05:31 | 6 | M5.5 | N02W74 | 12567 |
| 2016-07-23 | 01:46 | 02:11 | 37 | M5.0 | – | – |
| 2016-01-01 | 23:10 | 00:11 | 111 | M2.3 | – | – |
| 2016-07-24 | 06:09 | 06:20 | 23 | M2.0 | N03W84 | 12567 |
| 2016-07-24 | 17:30 | 17:43 | 42 | M1.9 | – | – |
| 2016-02-13 | 15:16 | 15:24 | 10 | M1.8 | N13W25 | 12497 |
| 2016-08-07 | 14:37 | 14:44 | 11 | M1.3 | N09W67 | 12572 |
| 2016-02-15 | 10:41 | 11:00 | 25 | M1.2 | S20W48 | 12500 |
| 2016-07-21 | 00:42 | 00:46 | 8 | M1.2 | – | – |
| 2016-11-29 | 23:29 | 23:38 | 11 | M1.2 | S08E52 | 12615 |
| 2016-02-12 | 10:36 | 10:47 | 17 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2016-02-14 | 19:18 | 19:26 | 11 | M1.0 | N15W47 | 12497 |
| 2016-07-21 | 01:34 | 01:49 | 30 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2016-11-29 | 17:19 | 17:23 | 7 | M1.0 | S07E55 | 12615 |
| 2016-01-28 | 11:48 | 12:02 | 28 | C9.6 | N06W45 | 12488 |
| 2016-02-17 | 04:54 | 05:01 | 13 | C9.4 | – | – |
| 2016-07-21 | 12:47 | 12:55 | 16 | C9.2 | N01W49 | 12567 |
| 2016-02-11 | 20:18 | 21:03 | 70 | C8.9 | N11W07 | 12497 |
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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318 flares of class C+ in 2016: 16 M-class and 0 X-class.