 Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.61 mas as measured from Earth, it is located around 429 light years from the Sun.At that distance, the visual magnitude of the star is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.027 due to interstellar dust.With a stellar classification of K3 III, Rho Draconis is a normal giant star that is past the first dredge-up phase of its post-main sequence evolution.