Which Areas Flood

Where Cape Coast floods every rainy season, which season it is right now, and whether the weather model expects heavy rain in the next few days. Not a flood warning.

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Where the town floods

The same low places go under in heavy rain, every wet season. If you live, work or travel through one of these, plan around the low roads before the rain sets in.

NIB Road & the Melcom stretch

Streets in the town centre that go under first: NIB Road and the commercial stretch around Melcom took on water in the 29 April 2025 downpour, leaving shoppers and traders stranded (Ghana News Agency).

Kingsway to Tantri

The Kingsway-to-Tantri run through the centre backs up when the drains can't carry the storm water away (Ghana News Agency, April 2025).

Abura

One of the areas worst hit in the deadly 19 June 2026 storm, when houses came down and thousands were displaced (Ghanaian Times; Ghana News Agency).

Ekon

A low coastal community among the hardest hit on 19 June 2026 — the kind of ground where run-off collects fast when the rain is heavy (Ghanaian Times, June 2026).

UCC and its environs

The University of Cape Coast and the student neighbourhoods around it (Amamoma, Kwaprow) flooded in the June 2026 storm; hostels and low compounds take on water in a heavy downpour (Ghanaian Times, June 2026).

Bakaano & the Fosu Lagoon edge

The town's streams drain through the wetlands into the Fosu Lagoon at Bakaano. When the lagoon is high and its inlets are choked or built over, the low ground here holds water instead of draining to the sea.

Why it floods here

Cape Coast sits on low coastal ground cut by small streams that should drain through the wetlands into the Fosu Lagoon and out to sea. Two things break that: the gutters silt up and fill with refuse, and buildings have gone up on the waterways and lagoon edge that the water needs. So an ordinary heavy downpour backs up into the streets and low compounds instead of running away — which is why the same neighbourhoods flood every wet season, and why the Assembly's response after June 2026 was to clear the drains and the structures blocking them.

“The gutters are always clogged, and it's only a matter of time before the next floods set in.”
— Ama Mensah, trader, to the Ghana News Agency after the 29 April 2025 downpour

Who to call when it floods

Emergencies first, then the bodies that respond to flooding and water safety.

National emergency line

Fire, medical and police emergencies · The number Ghana's official services publish; 999 also reaches an ambulance

Phone: 112

NADMO

Floods and disaster response — the office that coordinates relief when an area is inundated · National disaster hotline; also 0302 964 884

Phone: 122
Website: nadmo.gov.gh