Until 1973, the official name of the Klosters-Serneus municipality was Klosters; in the Walser-German local dialect the names are bim Chlooschter and Sernöis respectively, while the Rhaeto-Romanic term for the village is Claustra. Klosters is an independent local authority in the region of Prättigau-Davos in the Swiss Canton of the Grisons (Graubünden).