Moraga is a town in Contra Costa County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The town is named in honor of Joaquín Moraga, member of the famed Californio family.

The land now called Moraga was first inhabited by the Saklan Native Americans who belonged to the Bay Miwok language group.

In the first half of the 20th century, the line of the Sacramento Northern Railroad ran through Moraga; much of the old right-of-way is now part of the Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail.

[10] In June 2017, Moraga declared a fiscal emergency, because a sinkhole in the downtown area and a failed bridge on Canyon Road were expected to cost $5 million to repair.

[10] It is located adjacent to the cities of Lafayette and Orinda, as well as the unincorporated community of Canyon.

Other nearby cities include Walnut Creek, Oakland, San Francisco, Concord and Berkeley.

Large sections of the Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail pass through the town.

Moraga has a Mediterranean climate, with warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters.

Most of the annual rainfall comes during the winter; snow is very rare, but occasional light dustings have been seen.

Saint Mary's College of California is located just northeast of downtown Moraga;[9] it is a Catholic university with 3,962 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the 2007–2008 school year.

The college was originally located in San Francisco and then Oakland, but moved to Moraga in 1928.