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Claremont is known as the 'City of Trees and PhDs,' a nickname reflecting its tree-lined streets and the seven colleges packed into the city.

Claremont incorporated on October 3, 1907, in the Pomona Valley at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles.

Claremont is home to the Claremont Colleges, a consortium of seven institutions on contiguous campuses: five undergraduate colleges, Pomona, Scripps, Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer, plus Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute, together enrolling roughly 9,000 students.

Pomona College, the founding member of the Claremont Colleges, was founded in 1887 and moved to Claremont in 1889, and the city's early growth was tied to the college.

By a 1902 town-meeting vote, Claremont decreed that its east-west streets would be numbered while its north-south streets would be named after colleges and universities.

Claremont is believed to have been named after the town of Claremont, New Hampshire, and it was first mapped during the railroad-driven Southern California land boom of the 1880s.

Claremont had a population of 37,266 at the 2020 census, with about 11,950 households averaging 2.59 people each and about 63 percent of its homes owner-occupied.

The California Botanic Garden in Claremont covers 86 acres and is the largest botanic garden in California dedicated to the state's native plants; it made Claremont its home in 1954.

The Claremont Hills Wilderness Park preserves about 2,000 acres of foothill open space with miles of trails above the city.

The Village, Claremont's walkable historic downtown of cafes and shops on tree-lined streets, centers on a Metrolink station linking the city to the rest of Southern California.