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Upsilon Tauri is a solitary, white-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Taurus, and is a member of the Hyades star cluster. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.28. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 21.21 mas seen from Earth, it is around 154 light years from the Sun.
This is an A-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of A8 Vn. It is classified as a Delta Scuti type variable star and its brightness varies from magnitude +4.28 to +4.31 with a period of 3.56 hours. At an estimated age of 827 million years, it is spinning rapidly with a rotation period of just 0.415 days. This is giving the star an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is 9% larger than the polar radius.
Occasionally this star system shares the Bayer designation υ Tauri with 72 Tauri, which is separated from it by 0.29° in the sky.