[9] This is a red-hued star near the lower threshold of visibility to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 6.70.

[7] It is located at a distance of approximately 900 light years from the Sun based on parallax,[2] and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +39 km/s.

On average, it radiates a luminosity approximately 1,766 times that of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 3,302 K.[2] Infrared observations show little or no evidence for an oxygen-rich dusty shell around the star.

[11] UX Lyncis has been classified as a semiregular variable ranging from magnitude 6.6 down to 6.78.

[3] Its changes in brightness are complex, with a shorter period of 37.3 days due to the star's pulsations, and a longer period of 420 days possibly due to the star's rotation or convectively induced oscillatory thermal (COT) mode.