Garmin Forerunner Smartwatch

OUR BEST AND BRIGHTEST RUNNING SMARTWATCHES

AMOLED DISPLAY | DURABLE SAPPHIRE LENS | TITANIUM BEZEL

• BRIGHT 1.4-INCH AMOLED DISPLAY

• UP TO 26 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE IN GPS MODE

• PREMIUM TRAINING AND RECOVERY FEATURES

• BUILT-IN MAPS WITH SATIQ^™ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-BAND GPS

• LIGHTWEIGHT TITANIUM BEZEL AND DURABLE SAPPHIRE LENS

• BUILT-IN LED FLASHLIGHT

RUNNING ECONOMY

Measure your overall energy efficiency while running — using long-term running volume, stride length and step speed loss, which tells you how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground — when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 monitor (sold separately).

RUNNING TOLERANCE

Better understand the impact each run has on your body, and get a recommended weekly maximum mileage so you can keep training effectively without taking on too much.

FULL-COLOR MAPPING

Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, the Forerunner 970 smartwatch provides full-color, built-in mapping — now even more dynamic, intuitive and simpler to follow.

GARMIN COACH ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS

Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, triathlon, cycling or strength. Select plans adapt daily for personalized workouts based on your performance, recovery and health metrics.

TRAINING READINESS

From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.

BUILT-IN SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE

Make and take phone calls from your watch when it’s paired to your smartphone. Plus, control watch functions with voice command — or use your smartphone’s voice assistant to respond to text messages and more.

PLAN

MORNING REPORT

Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar, HRV status and more as soon as you wake up. You can even customize your reports theme, data shown and more.

EVENING REPORT

Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’s workout, weather and events.

TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect^™ smartphone app, or sync from third-party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.

DYNAMIC ROUND-TRIP ROUTING

Enter how far you want to go, and get suggested routes that will bring you back. If you break off course, your watch will map a new one that hits the same mileage.

TRAINING STATUS

Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and VO2 max, get an easy insight into training effectiveness — and know whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS

Get running, track run and cycling workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery.

RECOVERY TIME

Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.

HEALTH STATUS

Look for changes in your health data that could indicate added stress to your body, so you can know when you’re trending away from your usual range. This feature is currently available in beta¹.

BODY BATTERY^™ ENERGY MONITORING

Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest².

SLEEP COACH

Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages, and get insights to improve sleep quality².

NAP DETECTION

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.

SMART WAKE ALARM

Wake up more refreshed. Smart wake alarm can gently vibrate to wake you at the right time.

BREATHING VARIATIONS

For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep³. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.

HRV STATUS

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, stress and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep.

GARMIN ECG APP

The ECG app⁴ uses sensors to record the electrical signals that control how your heart beats. It analyzes that recording to detect signs of an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation.

SKIN TEMPERATURE

When wearing your watch to sleep, see how your average skin temperature² changes, which can be related to your recent activity, sleep environment, potential illness and more.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, plus get exercise and nutrition education. With skin temperature tracking while you sleep, get better period predictions and past ovulation estimates⁵.

RACE PREDICTOR

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and marathon if you were to run it today.

PROJECTED RACE TIME

This race-time prediction is what your race time and pace could be if you keep training well all the way through to the race date entered.

PREPARE

WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS

This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

STEP SPEED LOSS

Improve your running form and understand how much you slow down when your foot hits the ground when you pair your watch with the HRM 600 monitor (sold separately).

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

The watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities².

MULTISPORT WORKOUTS

Create custom step-by-step multisport workouts in Garmin Connect and send them to your watch to seamlessly switch from different sport types.

HILL SCORE

Measure your capability for running uphill, and evaluate your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history.

ENDURANCE SCORE

This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts to help you understand how training from your athletic pursuits impacts your overall endurance.

ACUTE LOAD

Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

LOAD RATIO

Track short-term to mid-term load ratio to keep your rate of training growth within bounds that will help you stay healthy and avoid setbacks.

PERFORMANCE CONDITION

While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

VO2 MAX

See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

TRAINING EFFECT

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.

HEALTH SNAPSHOT

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.

LIFESTYLE LOGGING

Log behaviors — such as caffeine and alcohol intake — and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect^™ app.

PULSE OX SENSOR

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep⁶.

CROSS TRAINING

Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga, Pilates and mobility workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.

PERFORM

TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES

Automatically record splits with built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns, or you can create your own.

WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER

See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

SATIQ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-BAND GPS

Get superior positioning accuracy and optimized battery life.

PACEPRO^™ PACING STRATEGIES

Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.

TRACK RUNNING

Your watch will record accurate lap distances in meters on tracks all over the world.

CLIMBPRO

See real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs.

REAL-TIME STAMINA

Use this data to help guide you toward your best possible performance and manage your exertion.

UP AHEAD

Get at-a-glance awareness of relevant stops along a preloaded course, including aid stations.

AUTO LAP^® BY TIMING GATES

Your watch will recognize when you cross mile or kilometer course points and trigger auto laps there versus GPS-based miles or kilometers when following a course.

SUGGESTED FINISH LINE

If you have a course loaded for your race, your watch can suggest trimming your data to the finish line if you forget to stop your timer.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS

Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

CONNECT

MUSIC

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music or YouTube^® Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).

SAFETY AND TRACKING

If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location⁷.

GARMIN PAY^™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS

Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone^® or Android^™ smartphone.

LIVETRACK

Friends and family can follow your real-time location⁷ and view preplanned courses.

GARMIN CONNECT APP

See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.

CONNECT IQ™ STORE

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.

GARMIN SHARE

Sync up with friends by sharing saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby compatible devices.

WHAT IF YOUR NEXT RACE WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF A LIFETIME? AND GARMIN COACH TRAINING PLANS HELPED YOU DO SOMETHING YOU'VE NEVER DONE? WITH THE FORERUNNER 265 SMARTWATCH, YOU’LL SEE EVERY INSIGHT LIT UP ON A COLORFUL AMOLED TOUCHSCREEN DISPLAY. GET READY TO BE BETTER FOR IT.

1.3” COLORFUL AMOLED DISPLAY

UP TO 20 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE IN GPS MODE

ADVANCED TRAINING METRICS AND RECOVERY INSIGHTS

SATIQ^™ AND MULTI-BAND GPS

TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS

MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST

MORNING REPORT

Receive an overview of your sleep¹ and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see.

GARMIN COACH

Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, cycling or strength. Just set it up in the Garmin Connect^™ app, then let Garmin Coach create personalized daily workouts to help you reach your goals. This includes Garmin Run and Cycling Coach, which creates training plans that adapt based on your performance, recovery and health metrics. If you’re trying to build muscle or simply increase your fitness level, the strength training plans are tailored to help you optimize your body’s performance and endurance.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS

Get workouts made specifically for you and based on your data. These run recommendations vary in intensity and adapt after every run to take into account performance and recovery.

TRAINING READINESS

From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.

TRAINING STATUS

Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and performance, get an easy insight into your overall effort — and whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.

HRV STATUS

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics^™ team.

PLAN

RECOVERY TIME

Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.

COURSES

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favorite third party platforms.

SLEEP COACH

Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need and how you can improve. Keep track of different sleep stages and naps — and see key metrics such as HRV status to better understand your health¹.

BODY BATTERY^™ ENERGY MONITORING

See your energy levels throughout the day so you’ll know when your body is charged up and ready for activity or drained and needing to recharge with restful sleep. And get even more details and personal insights on how sleep, naps, daily activities and high stress specifically impact your energy¹.

NAP DETECTION

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.

BREATHING VARIATIONS

For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep². These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.

RACE PREDICTOR

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.

PREPARE

WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS

This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

The watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities¹.

ACUTE LOAD

Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

TRAINING EFFECT

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.

PERFORMANCE CONDITION

While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

VO2 MAX

See your current fitness level and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more

INTENSITY MINUTES

Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes.

HEALTH SNAPSHOT

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

PULSE OX SENSOR

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep³.

AUDIO PROMPTS

Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts.

CROSS TRAINING

Forerunner 265 is preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.

PREPARE

WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER

See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

SATIQ^™ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-BAND GPS

Get superior positioning accuracy and optimized battery life.

PACEPRO^™ FEATURE

Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS

Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

TRACK RUNNING

Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters – even on a track you’ve never run before with a database with more than 10,000 tracks (400 meters) from all over the world.

TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES

Switch between sports automatically by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns – so you can focus on the race and let your watch take care of recording splits. You can also create your own custom multisport profiles.

CONNECT

MUSIC

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music or YouTube^® Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).

SAFETY AND TRACKING

If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location⁴. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.

GARMIN PAY^™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS

Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone^® or Android^™ smartphone.

LIVETRACK

Friends and family can follow your real-time location⁴ and view preplanned courses.

GARMIN TRAILS

Access thousands of trails, and send them directly to your compatible device for offline use with a subscription to Garmin Connect+ in the Garmin Connect™ app or to Outdoor Maps+ in the Garmin Explore™ app. Available in select areas. Learn more.

GARMIN CONNECT APP

See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.

CONNECT IQ^™ STORE

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.

GOOGLE MAPS™ APP

Know where to go when walking, running or cycling. Enter your destination in Google Maps on your Android™ smartphone, then follow turn-by-turn directions on your wrist.

GARMIN SHARE

Easily follow the same course or workout with your friends. Share saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby Garmin Share compatible devices.

TRAIN BRILLIANTLY

You don’t just run. You’ve moved beyond that. Which is why you need Forerunner 165 — the purpose-built GPS running smartwatch that helps you meet your goals with personalized adaptive training plans and a bright display to light up your progress.

• 1.2” COLORFUL AMOLED DISPLAY
• UP TO 11 DAYS OF BATTERY LIFE IN SMARTWATCH MODE
• TRAINING METRICS AND RECOVERY INSIGHTS
• 25+ BUILT-IN GPS AND INDOOR SPORTS APPS
• TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS
• BUILT-IN GPS FOR TIME, DISTANCE, PACE AND SPEED

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE

PACE, DISTANCE, HEART RATE

This easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch provides the essential features you need to take your running to the next level — including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate¹.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS

Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect^™ smartphone app calendar.

GARMIN COACH

Get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans from expert coaches to help you take on a new challenge.

RACE ADAPTIVE TRAINING

Get ready for your race with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on race details you enter into Garmin Connect.

HRV STATUS

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics^™ team.

MORNING REPORT

Receive an overview of your sleep¹ and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see.

TRAINING EFFECT

With training effect, you can see how your workouts impact your fitness and understand the primary benefit from training runs and workouts.

GO AHEAD, SIGN UP FOR THAT RACE.

PREPARE

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

Constant measurement of your heart rate helps you gauge how hard you work during activities, so you can stay in the know all day and night¹.

WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS

Get measurements of crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more to help improve your running form.

VO2 MAX

See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.

INTENSITY MINUTES

Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes to help meet your goals.

AUDIO PROMPTS

Get audio updates about your performance when paired to your smartphone.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

PULSE OX SENSOR

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep³.

CROSS TRAINING

Browse the Garmin Connect app for dozens of free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts. You can even build your own in the app and send them to your watch.

HEALTH SNAPSHOT

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.

LIFESTYLE LOGGING

Log behaviors — such as caffeine and alcohol intake — and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect^™ app.

ACTIVITY TRACKING

Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist¹.

FITNESS AGE

Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age.

PLAN

LONG BATTERY LIFE

With up to 11 days in smartwatch mode and up to 19 hours in GPS mode, you’ll get a more complete picture of your health and training.

RECOVERY TIME

Know how long to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training as well as overall stress, sleep and daily activities outside of workouts.

SLEEP MONITORING AND SLEEP SCORE

Understand how your body is recovering with sleep score, get a breakdown of your sleep stages, and gain detailed insights for improved sleep quality¹.

BODY BATTERY^™ ENERGY MONITORING

Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest¹. Even get details and insights on how sleep, naps, activities and stress impact your energy.

COURSES

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app and from favorite third-party platforms, and sync directly to your watch.

RACE PREDICTOR

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and even a marathon.

NAP DETECTION

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and what their ideal time and duration should be.

BREATHING VARIATIONS

For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep². These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and get exercise and nutrition education.

PERFORM

BUILT-IN GNSS

Our built-in sensors connect to multiple satellite systems so you track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance and pace.

WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER

See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS

Tap in to 25+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

TRACK RUNNING

Record accurate lap distances, and see your distances in meters.

PACEPRO^™ FEATURE

Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.

CONNECT

SAFETY AND TRACKING

If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location⁴. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.

GARMIN PAY^™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS

Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone^® or Android^™ smartphone.

LIVETRACK FEATURE

Friends and family can follow your real-time location³ and view preplanned courses.

GARMIN TRAILS

Access thousands of trails, and send them directly to your compatible device for offline use with a subscription to Garmin Connect+ in the Garmin Connect™ app or to Outdoor Maps+ in the Garmin Explore™ app. Available in select areas. Learn more.

GARMIN CONNECT APP

See your health and fitness information, connect with friends, and more.

CONNECT IQ^™ STORE

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.

CONTROL SMARTPHONE MUSIC

Keep your phone tucked away, and control your paired smartphone’s music directly from your watch.

GARMIN SHARE

Easily follow the same course or workout with your friends. Share saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby Garmin Share compatible devices.