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REMAINS AT THE FOREFRONT
Is your goal to reach the podium? Monitor your performance with a simple glance at your wrist. Train your best, give it your all and start running for your next race.
Get up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch mode (20 Solar version) for a complete picture of your health, from sleep to training.
Harness the power of the sun and get up to 49 hours of battery life in GPS mode with solar charging.
Scroll through statistics and maps with a new touchscreen.
Run safely on any route using the integrated colour maps and multi-band GPS.
The Training Readiness function tells you how much time you need for a productive session.
Plan your strategy with recommended daily workouts, route details and more with the RACE WIDGET
SOLAR RECHARGEABLE BATTERY (SOLAR VERSION)
Up to 20 days of battery life in smartwatch mode with solar charging. In GPS mode, you have up to 42 hours of battery life and up to 49 hours with solar charging. With UltraTrac™ mode, you get even more battery life, up to 110 hours on solar charging.
TOUCHSCREEN AND KEYS
Click or scroll through maps and statistics with traditional button controls or a new touchscreen.
CUSTOMISED FOR ENTHUSIASTS
Weighing just 52 grams, the Forerunner 955 smartwatch will make you feel light as a feather and in tune with your body.
TRAINING PREPARATION
From the moment you wake up, you get a training readiness score based on the quality of your sleep, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether the day allows you to train harder or slower.
MORNING REPORT
You can view an overview of your sleep, along with an indication of heart rate variability and weather conditions. You can also customise the report to show only what you are interested in seeing.
HRV STATUS
Get a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery performance by varying your heart rate while you sleep, based on technologies developed by our FirstBeat Analytics™ team.
RACE WIDGET
Get ready for your next race with training tips, recommended daily exercises and predicted completion times based on course details, weather conditions and performance.
SUGGESTED DAILY WORKOUTS
View a week’s worth of daily exercise recommendations, which adapt after each run to your performance and recovery, as well as to the scheduled races in the Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.
GARMIN COACH
Free, adaptive training plans include programmes for 5 km, 10 km and half marathons, with guidance from experienced coaches to suit you and your goals.
Running Power
You get a continuous wrist measurement of the power you apply on the course while running with a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro™ heart rate monitor.
REAL-TIME STAMINA
Use this data to monitor, manage effort and avoid overdoing it at the start of your run or ride.
RUNNING DYNAMICS
When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro heart rate monitor, the Forerunner 955 measures running dynamics including cadence, stride length, ground contact time, balance and more.
TRAINING STATUS
Using new indicators such as heart rate variability status, your training history and recent performance, you will get detailed information on your overall effort and know whether your training is productive, very intense or too strenuous.
RECENT TRAINING LOAD
Compare the intensity of your recent workouts to improve your fitness and training history.
TRAINING EFFECT
Find out how training affects your endurance, speed and power with Training Effect aerobic and anaerobic activity TRAINING EFFECT feedback.
PacePro™ function
When you run on a route, the PacePro function helps you maintain your pace by giving you directions based on the slope.
RECOVERY TIME
Find out how much rest you need before your next high-intensity exercise based on your last workouts, as well as your general stress, sleep and daily activities outside of training.
VO2 MAX
Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of your expected performance. This metric also takes into account variations in performance that might be caused by heat or altitude.
PERFORMANCE CONDITION
During your run, you can get an analysis of your pace, heart rate and heart rate variability for real-time evaluation of your performance.
SYNCHRONISES TRAINING PLANS
Download outdoor or indoor training programmes from the Garmin Connect™ app or synchronise your Forerunner with other platforms, such as TrainingPeaks® and TrainerRoad.
PRELOADED SPORTS PROFILES
Vary your workouts with activity profiles for cycling, triathlon, pool and open water swimming, track running and more. For races and block training, change sports at the touch of a button.
RACE PREDICTOR
Based on your running history and general fitness level, you get a prediction of your pace for 5km, 10km or even marathon runs. In addition, trend data shows the impact of your training over time.
MULTIBAND SUPPORT
Access multiple global navigation satellite systems and multiple frequencies sent by navigation satellites for greater accuracy in areas where GNSS signals are reflected, weak or absent, achieving maximum accuracy on distance and speed of travel, even in harsh environments.
Even better defined colour maps
For running in the city or cycling in the countryside, the Forerunner 955 offers integrated colour maps to help you never lose your way.
NAVIGATION WITH TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS
Follow a route with the help of turn-by-turn directions with pronounced street names, which will let you know in advance when you will face the next turn.
ROUND-TRIP NAVIGATION
With Trendline™ popularity-based routes, it’s easy to find the best local trails. Simply enter your desired distance and the Forerunner 955 will suggest routes that will take you back to your starting point.
PLACES ON THE ROUTE
Get instant knowledge of points of interest along the route. In addition, view performance metrics, split times and distance/quota, as well as a summary of upcoming milestones along the route.
CLIMBPRO FUNCTION
Use ClimbPro ascent planning on downloaded routes. It allows you to view real-time information about the climbs you have done and those ahead, including gradient, distance and altitude difference.
DETECTION FUNCTIONS
If you feel unsafe or if the watch detects that an accident has occurred, the assistance and detection functions4 send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is activated by default only for selected activity profiles.
Routes
Create or find existing routes in the Garmin Connect app so you’ll never run out of new routes to explore. Alternatively, plan them on other platforms, like Strava and Komoot, then automatically sync them to your Forerunner smartwatch.
PULSE RATE AT THE WRIST
The smartwatch constantly records your heart rate with our state-of-the-art heart rate sensor and will alert you if your heart rate remains too high or too low while you are at rest. It also allows you to measure the intensity of your activities, even while swimming.
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING
Measure your body’s energy levels to know when is the best time to exercise and rest.
SCORE AND ADVANCED SLEEP MONITORING
Get a score for your sleep quality and information on how to improve. You can also monitor the different stages of sleep as well as heart rate, stress, Ox pulse and breathing.
PULSE OX SENSOR
This Pulse Ox sensor on the wrist monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimatisation.
MENSTRUAL CYCLE AND PREGNANCY
Use the Garmin Connect app to monitor your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Record your symptoms, get exercise and nutrition advice and more. You can view and record details directly from your wrist.
HEALTH SNAPSHOT™ FUNCTION
With a 2-minute session you can record key statistics such as heart rate, HRV, Pulse Ox, breathing and stress. Then, via the Garmin Connect™ app on your compatible smartphone, generate a report with these statistics to share.
MUSIC ON THE WRIST
Download up to 500 songs and playlists from your Spotify®, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts (subscription may be required).
CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Speed up payments with the contactless payment solution Garmin Pay via enabled providers.
SMART NOTIFICATION
Receive e-mails, SMS and push alerts directly on the watch if it is paired with your Apple® or Android™ smartphone. You can also reply to messages if you have an Android phone.
Control your smart trainer
Control your Tacx® Smart Trainer via ANT+® technology for route simulation, automatic resistance changes and workout alerts when using routes or workouts from the watch.
GARMIN CONNECT
View information on your health and fitness, connect and compete with friends, enter challenges to earn medals and more, all in one free app without a subscription.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
From the Connect IQ Store app, downloaded to your compatible smartphone, you can add dials, data fields and apps to the associated watch.
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General |
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| Lens material | Forerunner 955 Solar – Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
Forerunner 955 – Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX |
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| Ferrule material | Fibre-reinforced polymer |
| Compatible with QuickFit watch strap™ | Yes (compatible with 22 mm) |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Case dimensions, WxWxH | 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4 (mm) Suitable for wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm |
| Touchscreen | ✓ |
| Colour screen | ✓ |
| Screen size, WxH | Diameter of 1.3″ (33 mm) |
| Screen resolution, WxH | 260 x 260 pixel |
| Screen type | Anti-reflective, MIP (Memory-In-Pixel) transflective |
| Weight | 53 g |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: up to 15-20 days with solar charging* / up to 15 days GPS-only mode without music: up to 42-49 hours with solar charging** / up to 42 hours GNSS mode all systems plus multi-band with music: up to 8.5 hours GNSS mode all systems plus multi-band without music: up to 20-22 hours with solar charging** / up to 20 hours GPS-only mode without music: up to 42-49 hours with solar charging** / up to 42 hours UltraTrac mode: up to 80-110 hours with solar charging** / up to 80 hours *Solar charging, wear all day, 3 hours a day outdoors in 50,000 lux light conditions ** Solar charging, use in 50,000 lux conditions |
| Water-resistance classification | Water, 5 ATM |
| Memory/chronology | Bluetooth®, ANT+® |
Clock functions |
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| Time/date | ✓ |
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| Time synchronisation via GPS | ✓ |
| Automatic Daylight Saving Time | ✓ |
| Alarm clock | ✓ |
| Timer | ✓ |
| Chronometer | ✓ |
| Sunrise/sunset times | ✓ |
Health Monitoring |
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| Pulse heart rate (constant, every second) | ✓ |
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| Daily resting heart rate | ✓ |
| Abnormal heart rate warnings | Yes (high and low) |
| Respiratory rate (24×7) | ✓ |
| Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation | Yes (sample check and optional all-day and sleep acclimatisation) |
| Age of fitness | ✓ |
| Body Battery™ energy monitoring | ✓ |
| Daily stress tracking | ✓ |
| Daily stress tracking | ✓ |
| Relaxation reminder timer | ✓ |
| Sleep | Yes (advanced) |
| Sleep monitoring (sleep score and Insights messages) | ✓ |
| Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Women’s health monitoring | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Health snapshot | ✓ |
Sensors |
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| GPS | ✓ |
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| GLONASS | ✓ |
| Galileo | ✓ |
| Multi-frequency position detection | ✓ |
| Garmin Elevate™ wrist-mounted cardio technology | ✓ |
| Barometric altimeter | ✓ |
| Compass | ✓ |
| Gyroscope | ✓ |
| Accelerometer | ✓ |
| Thermometer | ✓ |
| Acclimatisation of the pulse oximeter | ✓ |
Daily Smart Functions |
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| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® |
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| Connect IQ™ (clock dials, data fields, widgets and downloadable apps) | ✓ |
| Connect IQ™ Store on your device | ✓ |
| Smart Notification | ✓ |
| Automatic response with preset messages (Android™ only) | ✓ |
| Calendar | ✓ |
| Weather | ✓ |
| Real-time synchronisation of settings via mobile phone with Garmin Connect™ app | ✓ |
| Energy saving: customisable low-power clock | ✓ |
| Music control on smartphones | ✓ |
| Loading and controlling music on device | ✓ |
| Musical memory | Up to 2,000 tracks |
| Find my phone | ✓ |
| Find the clock function | ✓ |
| VIRB™ remote control | ✓ |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
| Pairs with the Garmin Golf app | ✓ |
| Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | ✓ |
| Garmin Pay™ | ✓ |
Safety and detection functions |
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| LiveTrack | ✓ |
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| Viewer messages | Yes (with compatible smartphone) |
| LiveTrack group | ✓ |
| Real-time event sharing | Android™ only |
| Incident detection during certain activities | ✓ |
| Assistance | ✓ |
Tactical functions |
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| Double grid co-ordinates | ✓ |
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Activity tracking functions |
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| Pedometer | ✓ |
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| Motion bar (appears on the device after a period of inactivity; walk around for a couple of minutes to reset) | ✓ |
| Automatic target (stores activity level and assigns a daily step target) | ✓ |
| Calories burned | ✓ |
| Floors climbed | ✓ |
| Distance travelled | ✓ |
| Minutes of intensity | ✓ |
| TrueUp™ | ✓ |
| Move IQ™ | ✓ |
| App Garmin Connect ™ Challenges | Yes (Connect IQ app optional) |
Fitness/Gym equipment |
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| Available gym activity profiles | Functional training, HIIT, Cardio and elliptical, Stair stepping, Floor climbing, Indoor climbing, Bouldering, Indoor rowing, Pilates, Yoga |
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| Cardio workouts | ✓ |
| Functional strength training | ✓ |
| HIIT workouts | ✓ |
| Yoga workouts | ✓ |
| Pilates workouts | ✓ |
| On-screen training animations | ✓ |
| On-screen training muscle maps | ✓ |
| Automatic repeat counting | ✓ |
Training, planning and analysis functions |
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| Intensity zones | ✓ |
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| FC Notices | ✓ |
| Calories FC | ✓ |
| % FC max | ✓ |
| % FCR | ✓ |
| Recovery Time | ✓ |
| Automatic max. HR | ✓ |
| Morning report | ✓ |
| Quick view/widget of the race | ✓ |
| HRV status | ✓ |
| Training preparation | ✓ |
| HR Broadcast (transmits CF data to associated devices via ANT+™) | ✓ |
| Respiratory rate (during activity) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| GPS speed and distance | ✓ |
| Customisable data pages | ✓ |
| Customisable activity profiles | ✓ |
| Auto Pause® | ✓ |
| Interval training | ✓ |
| Improved repetition (includes free repeats, interval data page, recovery screen and automatic detection) | ✓ |
| Advanced training | ✓ |
| Downloadable training plans | ✓ |
| Auto Lap® | ✓ |
| Manual Lap | ✓ |
| Recovery Timer | ✓ |
| Configurable Lap Alerts | ✓ |
| Acclimatisation to heat and altitude | ✓ |
| VO2 max (running) | ✓ |
| VO2 Max (Trail Run) | ✓ |
| Stamina in real time | ✓ |
| Training Status | improved |
| Training Load | ✓ |
| Focus Training Load | ✓ |
| Training Effect (aerobic) | ✓ |
| Training Effect (anaerobic) | ✓ |
| Primary Benefit (Training Effect labels) | ✓ |
| Improved recovery time | ✓ |
| Suggested daily workouts | Yes (7 days) |
| Customisable alerts | ✓ |
| Audio Alerts | ✓ |
| End time | ✓ |
| Virtual Partner | ✓ |
| Virtual Racer™ | ✓ |
| Automatic multisport activities | ✓ |
| Manual multisport activities | ✓ |
| Route instructions | ✓ |
| Segments (Live, Garmin) | ✓ |
| Strava functions (Beacon, live segments) | ✓ |
| Round-trip route creator (running/cycling) | ✓ |
| Route calculation based on Trendline™ popularity | ✓ |
| Touch button and/or button lock | ✓ |
| Physical keys | ✓ |
| Automatic scrolling | ✓ |
| Activity history on the watch | ✓ |
| Physio TrueUp | ✓ |
Running functions |
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| Available stroke profiles | Running, Track running, Treadmill running, Indoor running, Trail running, Virtual running, Ultramarathon |
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| Distance, time and pace based on GPS | ✓ |
| Running dynamics | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Oscillation and vertical ratio | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Ground contact time and balancing | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Ground contact time and balancing | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Cadence (provides the number of steps in real time per minute) | ✓ |
| Stroke power | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Performance Condition | ✓ |
| Anaerobic threshold | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| PacePro™ gait strategies | ✓ |
| Running training | ✓ |
| Race Forecasts | ✓ |
| Race forecast based on route and weather | ✓ |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) | ✓ |
Golf functions |
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| Preloaded with 42,000 international fields | ✓ |
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| Yard measurement of the front, middle and back of the green | ✓ |
| Distance measurement in yards from layups/doglegs | ✓ |
| Measure shot distance (allows precise measurement in yards for shots from any point on the course) | Automatic |
| Digital scoreboard | ✓ |
| Recording statistics (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairway hits) | ✓ |
| Garmin AutoShot™ | ✓ |
| Automatic CourseView Updates | ✓ |
| Green view with manual flag positioning | ✓ |
| Obstacles and field targets | ✓ |
| PinPointer | ✓ |
| Handicap Score | ✓ |
| TruSwing™ compatible | ✓ |
| Timer round/kilometre counter | ✓ |
| Tournament Rules | ✓ |
Functions for outdoor activities |
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| Profiles for available outdoor activities | Hiking, Climbing, Skiing, Snowboarding, Off-piste skiing, Cross-country skiing , SUP, Rowing, Kayaking, Snowshoeing, Navigation, Tennis, Pickleball, Padel. |
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| Point-to-point navigation | ✓ |
| Trail marked in real time | ✓ |
| Back to the beginning | ✓ |
| TracBack® | ✓ |
| UltraTrac Mode | ✓ |
| Around Me Mode | ✓ |
| Places on the route | ✓ |
| Quota profile | ✓ |
| Distance to destination | ✓ |
| Barometric trend indicator | ✓ |
| ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner | ✓ |
| Auto Climb for trail running | ✓ |
| Vertical speed | ✓ |
| Total ascent/descent | ✓ |
| Expected elevation graph | ✓ |
| PRE-LOADED TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS | ✓ |
| Preloaded road and trail maps | ✓ |
| Support of downloadable maps | ✓ |
| GPS Coordinates | ✓ |
| Point and go | ✓ |
| Area calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Calendar for hunting and fishing | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Projected Waypoint | ✓ |
| Ephemerides | ✓ |
| XERO™ positions | ✓ |
Cycling functions |
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| Garmin Cycle Map (map of cycle paths) | ✓ |
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| Available bike profiles | Cycling, Road biking, Mountain biking, Dirt biking, Commuting biking, Bike touring, eBiking, eMountain biking, Indoor cycling, Cyclocross |
| Time/distance alarm (an alarm is triggered when the target is reached) | ✓ |
| Pathways (allows you to compete with previous activities) | ✓ |
| Grit & Flow MTB | ✓ |
| Lap in bike and maximum power in Lap (with power sensor) | ✓ |
| Race against an activity | ✓ |
| Functional Threshold Power (FTP) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Compatible with Vector™ | ✓ |
| Compatible with the Vector™ power sensor (displays watts expressed while pedalling with compatible third-party ANT+™ power sensors) | ✓ |
| Advanced cycling dynamics | ✓ |
| Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted screen) | ✓ |
| Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | ✓ |
| Compatible with Varia™ lights | ✓ |
| Support for speed and cadence sensor (with sensor) | ✓ |
Swimming functions |
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| Swimming profiles available | Swimming in the pool, open water swimming, swimming/running |
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| Metrics for open water swimming (distance, pace, number/frequency of strokes, calories) | ✓ |
| Swimming pool metrics (laps, distance, pace, number/frequency of strokes, calories) | ✓ |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, dolphin, butterfly) | ✓ |
| Recording of Exercises | ✓ |
| Basic recovery timer (up to 0) | ✓ |
| Recovery timer ‘Repeat triggered’ | ✓ |
| Automatic Recovery | ✓ |
| Time and distance warnings | ✓ |
| Gait warnings (pool swimming only) | ✓ |
| Countdown start | ✓ |
| Swimming training | ✓ |
| Critical swimming speed | ✓ |
| Underwater pulse rate | ✓ |
| Heart rate (real-time during recovery, statistics of repeats and sessions during recovery and automatic download of heart rate after swimming activity) | Yes (with HRM-Swim™ or HRM-Pro™) |
Child detection functions |
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| Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges App | Yes (optional Toe-to-Toe™ challenges app available on Connect IQ) |
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Connectivity |
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| SMART TRAINER CONTROL | ✓ |
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