Haql

<h2 id="climate">Climate</h2>
<p>Haql has a desert climate and most rainfall is in the winter. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is BWh. The average annual temperature in Haql is 24.3 °C (75.7 °F). About 24 mm (0.94 in) of precipitation falls annually.
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<table><tbody><tr><th colspan="14">Climate data for Haql</th></tr><tr><th scope="row">Month</th><th scope="col">Jan</th><th scope="col">Feb</th><th scope="col">Mar</th><th scope="col">Apr</th><th scope="col">May</th><th scope="col">Jun</th><th scope="col">Jul</th><th scope="col">Aug</th><th scope="col">Sep</th><th scope="col">Oct</th><th scope="col">Nov</th><th scope="col">Dec</th><th scope="col">Year</th></tr><tr><th scope="row">Mean daily maximum °C (°F)</th><td>21.1(70.0)</td><td>22.8(73.0)</td><td>25.8(78.4)</td><td>29.9(85.8)</td><td>34.0(93.2)</td><td>36.8(98.2)</td><td>37.4(99.3)</td><td>37.8(100.0)</td><td>35.2(95.4)</td><td>31.9(89.4)</td><td>27.1(80.8)</td><td>22.2(72.0)</td><td>30.2(86.3)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Mean daily minimum °C (°F)</th><td>10.7(51.3)</td><td>11.7(53.1)</td><td>14.3(57.7)</td><td>17.8(64.0)</td><td>20.3(68.5)</td><td>23.8(74.8)</td><td>25.3(77.5)</td><td>25.6(78.1)</td><td>24.1(75.4)</td><td>20.8(69.4)</td><td>16.5(61.7)</td><td>11.9(53.4)</td><td>18.6(65.4)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">Average <a href="/facts/Precipitation/uq3nGQc8">precipitation</a> mm (inches)</th><td>3(0.1)</td><td>5(0.2)</td><td>5(0.2)</td><td>3(0.1)</td><td>1(0.0)</td><td>0(0)</td><td>0(0)</td><td>0(0)</td><td>0(0)</td><td>1(0.0)</td><td>3(0.1)</td><td>3(0.1)</td><td>24(0.9)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="14">Source: <a href="https://en.climate-data.org">Climate Data</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2 id="possible-name-origin">Possible name origin</h2>
<p>The city of Haql may have been a corruption of "Ashkelon". In the Mishnah, at the beginning of Tractate Gittin (1:2) it is written "... and Ashkelon as the south". There was a city named Ashkelon at the southern border of the Land of Israel south of the city of <a href="/facts/Elath/HesnlquF">Elath</a>. This city of Ashkelon is entirely unrelated to the city of <a href="/facts/Ashkelon/aLwPHpaK">Ashkelon</a> on the Mediterranean coast.
The researcher Haim bar Droma wrote "There was another Ashkelon in the Gulf of Eilat. This was a common practice for ancient cities, many cities were named after other cities in the same region. It may be that this is the similarity in sound between 'Ashkelon' and 'Haql'.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Midian/Kd1ztBIU">Midian</a></li></ul>

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<li>Saudi Arabia portal</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Scoville, Sheila A. (2006). Gazetteer of Arabia: a geographical and tribal history of the Arabian Peninsula. Vol. 2. Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt. pp. 201–344. ISBN 0-7614-7571-0. <a href="0-7614-7571-0" target="_blank">0-7614-7571-0</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>bar Droma, Haim (1958). וזה גבול הארץ: גבולותיה האמתיים של ארץ ישראל לאור המקורות. Jerusalem: מוסד הרב קוק. <a href="https://www.nli.org.il/en/books/NNL_ALEPH990018516730205171/NLI" target="_blank">https://www.nli.org.il/en/books/NNL_ALEPH990018516730205171/NLI</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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