Changelog

Cape Coast's festival and remembrance days as they come around: the Fetu Afahye ban weeks and grand durbar, and Emancipation Day at the castles — each with the rules to know before it arrives.

Hours, fees and how a canopy-walk visit actually runs at Kakum — the walk-in park most visitors pair with the castles, about 45 minutes north — with an honest note that the fees are a guide to confirm at the gate.

Cape Coast floods in the same low places whenever a heavy downpour meets choked gutters and built-over waterways — the streets around NIB Road, Melcom and Kingsway-to-Tantri in the centre, and neighbourhoods like Abura, Ekon and the roads around the university, as the deadly storm of 19 June 2026 showed again. **Which Areas Flood** is a new page that shows which rainy season it is right now — the major season runs April to July, a shorter one September to November — and reads the weather model for the next few days, so you can see when heavy rain is on the way and plan around the low roads before it sets in. It names where the town floods and why, and it lists who to call. It is not a flood warning, and it says so plainly. The real alerts still come by radio — ATL FM, Kastle, Cape and TW — and from NADMO and the emergency line 112, all of which are on the page. The rain figures are weather-model estimates, not measurements; calm skies are never a promise, and heavy rain on the hills is a reason to be watchful. Rainfall data is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

Emergency and service numbers verified against official sites — and an honest note about the ones we could not confirm.

Eleven plain answers — festival ban dates, why the taps run dry, which streets flood, and where official announcements actually appear: the radio.

Who fishes when, in one dated place: the 2026 closed season (canoes exempt), the Tuesday fishing holiday, the premix price cap, and the Fosu Lagoon ban — with a timeline of what changes next.