TRAIN BRILLIANTLY - WITH AN AMOLED DISPLAY

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 colourful amoled touchscreen display. Get ready to be better for it.

• KNOW WHERE YOU STAND
  with morning report
• RUN. RECOVER. REPEAT.
  with up to 13 days of battery life in smartwatch mode
• COMES IN TWO SIZES
  to fit every wrist
• PLAN YOUR STRATEGY
  with garmin coach, personalised daily suggested workouts, training readiness score and more
  
  
• 1.3″ bright and colourful 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. 

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE

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 customise your report to show you what you want to see.

GARMIN COACH
Prepare for your next race, train for a milestone, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin  Coach adaptive or prebuilt  running, cycling or strength training plans. For more personalised workouts, select plans even adapt based on your performance and health metrics.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUT
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.

LIGHT, BRIGHT AND MADE FOR ANY DISTANCE

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 favourite third party platforms.
• SLEEP COACH
  Get personalised coaching for how much sleep you need and tips on how you can improve. Use this guidance to find the right balance between challenging activities and your body’s natural recovery process².
• 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.
• 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 running smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
• WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
  This running 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 asleep².
• AUDIO PROMPTS
  Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts.
• CROSS TRAINING
  Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts to your Forerunner® 265 so you can switch up how you sweat.

PERFORM

• 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 optimised battery life.
• PACEPRO™ FEATURE
  Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
• BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
  Tap into 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 metres) 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 location³. 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 running watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
• LIVE TRACK
  Friends and family can follow your real-time location³ 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.