Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 2026
C1542
M209
X13
LargestX8.12026-02-01
M/X flares by month
- January 2026
- February 2026
- March 2026
- April 2026
- May 2026
- June 2026
- July 2026
- August 2026
- September 2026
- October 2026
Nearby years (M + X)
30
200
364
914
350
222
Top 20 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 | – | – |
| 2026-04-24 | 08:01 | 08:13 | 17 | X2.5 | – | – |
| 2026-04-24 | 00:51 | 01:07 | 22 | X2.4 | – | – |
| 2026-01-18 | 17:27 | 18:09 | 84 | X1.9 | – | – |
| 2026-02-02 | 07:39 | 08:14 | 61 | X1.6 | – | – |
| 2026-02-03 | 13:58 | 14:08 | 20 | X1.5 | – | – |
| 2026-03-30 | 02:47 | 03:19 | 57 | X1.4 | – | – |
| 2026-07-04 | 20:29 | 20:41 | 18 | X1.2 | – | – |
| 2026-06-30 | 20:34 | 20:50 | 26 | X1.1 | – | – |
| 2026-02-01 | 12:25 | 12:33 | 12 | X1.0 | – | – |
| 2026-06-03 | 11:19 | 11:28 | 16 | X1.0 | – | – |
| 2026-06-03 | 01:22 | 01:36 | 21 | M9.3 | – | – |
| 2026-07-01 | 22:57 | 23:09 | 16 | M8.5 | – | – |
| 2026-08-20 | 11:32 | 11:42 | 22 | M8.1 | – | – |
| 2026-06-03 | 06:49 | 07:00 | 18 | M7.7 | – | – |
| 2026-04-04 | 01:07 | 01:17 | 16 | M7.5 | – | – |
| 2026-02-03 | 06:43 | 07:01 | 36 | M7.2 | – | – |
| 2026-02-03 | 14:45 | 14:56 | 18 | M7.2 | – | – |
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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1,764 flares of class C+ in 2026: 209 M-class and 13 X-class.