Its drainage basin is 88 km2 (34 sq mi).

[1] The Northern Taurach is a right-hand tributary of the Enns near Radstadt.

It is one of the two rivers named Taurach, both of which rise near the Radstädter Tauern Pass, but drain in opposite directions – the other is called Southern Taurach [ceb; de; sv].

The two valleys, which descend from the Tauern Pass, are also both called Taurach Valley (Taurachtal [ceb; de; sv]).

The Northern Taurach is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) long and thus considerably shorter than the Southern Taurach, but has a greater height difference from source to mouth of over 900 metres (3,000 ft).