Haql
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City of Haql
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| Website | www.haqlcity.com |
Ḥaql (
Haql is a small city and it is not a port used for
Climate
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.
| Climate data for Haql | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 21.1 (70.0) |
22.8 (73.0) |
25.8 (78.4) |
29.9 (85.8) |
34.0 (93.2) |
36.8 (98.2) |
37.4 (99.3) |
37.8 (100.0) |
35.2 (95.4) |
31.9 (89.4) |
27.1 (80.8) |
22.2 (72.0) |
30.2 (86.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 10.7 (51.3) |
11.7 (53.1) |
14.3 (57.7) |
17.8 (64.0) |
20.3 (68.5) |
23.8 (74.8) |
25.3 (77.5) |
25.6 (78.1) |
24.1 (75.4) |
20.8 (69.4) |
16.5 (61.7) |
11.9 (53.4) |
18.6 (65.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3 (0.1) |
5 (0.2) |
5 (0.2) |
3 (0.1) |
1 (0.0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
1 (0.0) |
3 (0.1) |
3 (0.1) |
24 (0.9) |
| Source: Climate Data | |||||||||||||
Possible name origin
The city of Haql may have been a distortion of Ashkelon (Asqalan). In the Mishnah at the beginning of the Gitin tractate it is written "... and Ashkelon as the south". Ashkelon is the southern border of the Land of biblical Israel, although it was probably southern at least to the city of Elath. The researcher Haim Bar Droma wrote about this in his book 'And this is the border of the land because there was another Ashkelon in the Gulf of Eilat. This was uncommon practice for ancient cities, many cities where named after other cities in the same region. It may be that this is the identity in sound between 'Ashkelon and 'Haql'.
See also
References
- ^ "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with population statistics, maps, charts, weather and web information". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
- ISBN 0-7614-7571-0.
