It resembles the European garden spider, Araneus diadematus, but has distinctive tubercles on its abdomen.

A. angulatus constructs a large orb web, suspended from bushes and trees, often with support lines leading to the ground.

[1] It detects prey items by vibrations they cause in the web, but has also been observed during a country fair, and reported to be "indifferent to crowds, music and fireworks".

[5] Araneus angulatus was the first of the 66 species described in Carl Alexander Clerck's 1757 work Aranei Svecici / Svenska Spindlar.

[6] Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Svenska Spindlar has precedence over the 10th edition of Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae from 1758, and is therefore the first work to contain scientific names of animals that are still in use.