Claremont is a suburban city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, California, United States, 30 miles (48 km) east of downtown Los Angeles. It is in the Pomona Valley, at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 34,926, and in 2019 the estimated population was 36,266.

Claremont is house to the Claremont Colleges and other learned institutions, and the city is known for its tree-lined streets considering numerous historic buildings. Because of this, it is sometimes referred to as “The City of Trees and Ph.Ds.” In July 2007, it was rated by CNN/Money magazine as the fifth best place to stir in the United States, and was the highest rated place in California on the list. It was next named the best suburb in the West by Sunset Magazine in 2016, which described it as a “small city that blends worldly sophistication considering small-town appeal.” In 2018, Niche rated Claremont as the 17th best place to conscious in the Los Angeles Place out of 658 communities it evaluated, based on crime, cost of living, job opportunities, and local amenities.

The city is primarily residential, with a significant allowance of its announcement activity located in “The Village,” a popular deposit of street-front little stores, boutiques, art galleries, offices, and restaurants neighboring and west of the Claremont Colleges. The Village was expanded in 2007, adding a controversial multi-use loan that includes an indie cinema, a boutique hotel, retail space, offices, and a parking structure upon the site of an antiquated citrus packing tree-plant west of Indian Hill Boulevard.

Claremont has been a winner of the National Arbor Day Association’s Tree City USA great compliment for 22 consecutive years. When the city incorporated in 1907, local citizens started what has become the city’s tree-planting tradition. Claremont is one of the few surviving places in North America next American Elm trees that have not been exposed to Dutch elm disease. The stately trees extraction Indian Hill Boulevard in the vicinity of the city’s Memorial Park.