TUNE YOUR TRAINING
Add a beat to your step. Get the training and recovery insights you need
to run at a higher level — plus music to motivate you along the way.
You're serious about running - and your music. Step it up with Forerunner 255 Music, the everyday GPS smartwatch with built-in music storage that will help you train smarter, recover smarter and run your best race.
Add a beat to your step. Get the training and recovery insights you need
to run at a higher level — plus music to motivate you along the way.
Get an overview of your sleep, HRV status and daily workout with your morning report.
Charge less, train more with up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 30 hours in GPS mode.
Push your limits with a built-in triathlon feature and 30+ activity profiles.
Plan your strategy with daily suggested workouts, course details and more on the race widget.
Utilise a full suite of advanced metrics and training tools to reach your goals.
Pay for your post-workout coffee with Garmin Pay™ contactless payments. — and listen to music on the go.
Get an uninterrupted picture of your daily health and nightly sleep with up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 30 hours in GPS mode.
With its sleek design and 49g weight, you'll almost forget you're wearing Forerunner® 255 Music — even when you're asleep.
Featuring easy-to-use buttons and a silicone band, this watch is ready to wear — and tear — with durable Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3.
Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery 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.
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, recovery and training performance through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.
Tap into 30+ built-in activities, including the triathlon and open-water swimming profiles — new to the Forerunner 255 series. For races and brick workouts, transition to the next activity with a single button press.
View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.
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.
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.
This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory required.
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.
To help you plan your race day strategy, this feature offers GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance, so you can tailor your efforts to what's ahead.
Don’t run out of steam before the activity is over. After configuring your data fields in the running activity, understand how to adjust your pace over varying terrain to perform according to your plan.
Using new 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.
See your training history, and compare the intensity of your recent workouts to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.
See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.
While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, so you'll never run out of places to run. Or plan one on other platforms such as Strava and Komoot, then automatically sync them to your Forerunner.
Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres – 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.
Based on your running history and overall fitness level, get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K — or even a marathon. Plus, trend data highlights your training's impact over time.
Mix up your training with different types of workouts. Download free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts to your watch, from the Garmin Connect app.
View your entire week of daily suggested cycling workouts directly on your smartwatch — which adapt to match your performance and the demands of upcoming events in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.
The watch constantly samples your heart rate2 with our latest-generation heart rate sensor and will alert you if it stays too high or too low while you're at rest. It also helps gauge how hard you work during activities — even while swimming.
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 energy.
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 process.
Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.
This wrist-based pulse ox sensor monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.
Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more. Even see and log details on your wrist with the Women's Health Tracking app.
Our intensity minutes feature tells you when during the day you earned them and during what activity.
Find out if you're having a calm, balanced or stressful day. Relax reminders will even prompt you to do a short breathing activity when the watch detects that you're feeling stressed.
Log a 2-minute session to record key stats, including heart rate, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats to share via the Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone.
Multi-band GNSS with SatIQ technology ensures the best positioning accuracy in any environment while also optimising the device’s battery life.
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or YouTube® Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).
Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payments1 through participating providers.
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your Apple® or Android™ smartphone. You can even respond to texts if you have an Android phone.
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, the Assistance and incident detection features4 send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is enabled by default for select activity profiles only.
Use LiveTrack to let friends and family follow your real-time location4 and even view your entire pre-planned course. Rest assured that your loved ones know exactly where you're running.
See your health and fitness information, connect and compete with friends, sign up for challenges to earn badges and more.
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app downloaded on your compatible smartphone.
Sleep Score and Insights | Yes |
Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 14 days |
DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS | Yes (7 days) |
Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation | Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep) |
Garmin Pay™ | Yes |
MULTI-BAND GPS | Yes |
Music storage | Yes |
Training status | Improved |
Watch display type | Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
Water rating | 5 ATM |
Strap material | Silicone |
Lens material | Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 |
Bezel material | Fiber-reinforced polymer |
Quick release bands | Yes (22 mm, Industry standard) |
Physical size | 45.6 x 45.6 x 12.9 (mm) Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-205 mm |
Weight | 49 g |
Display Size | 1.3" (33 mm) diameter |
Display Resolution | 260 x 260 pixels |
Colour display | Yes |
Large font option | Yes |
Battery life | Smartwatch mode: up to 14 days GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 30 hours All-Systems GNSS mode with music: Up to 6.5 hours All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 25 hours All-Systems GNSS mode plus Multi-Band: Up to 16 hours |
Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
Memory/history | 4 GB |
Time/date | yes |
GPS time sync | Yes |
Automatic daylight saving time | Yes |
Alarm clock | Yes |
Timer | Yes |
Stopwatch | Yes |
Sunrise/sunset times | Yes |
Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | Yes |
Daily Resting Heart Rate | Yes |
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | Yes (high and low) |
Respiration Rate (24x7) | Yes |
FITNESS AGE | Yes |
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITOR | Yes |
All-day stress | Yes |
Relaxation reminders | Yes |
Relaxation Breathing Timer | Yes |
MEDITATION | Yes |
SLEEP | Yes (Advanced) |
SLEEP COACH | Yes |
Nap detection | Yes |
Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Women's Health | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Health Snapshot | Yes |
GPS | Yes |
GLONASS | Yes |
Galileo | Yes |
SatIQ™ Technology | Yes |
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | Yes |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor | Yes |
Barometric altimeter | Yes |
Compass | Yes |
Gyroscope | Yes |
Accelerometer | Yes |
Thermometer | Yes |
Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+® |
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | Yes |
On-device Connect IQ™ Store | Yes |
Smart Notifications | Yes |
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | Yes |
View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only) | Yes |
Morning report | Yes |
Calendar | Yes |
Weather forecasts | Yes |
Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile | Yes |
Battery Saver - customisable low power watch | Yes |
Controls smartphone music | Yes |
Plays and controls watch music | Yes |
Find my phone | Yes |
Find my watch | Yes |
Find My Phone during GPS activity | Yes |
Compatible with Garmin Messenger app | Yes |
VIRB® camera remote | Yes |
Smart trainer control | Yes |
Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | Yes |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone® and Android™ |
Stocks | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Garmin Share | Yes |
Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing, Jump Roping |
Multisport | Triathlon |
WELLNESS | Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking |
INDOOR RUNNING | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running |
OUTDOOR RUNNING | Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running |
Outdoor recreation | Hiking, Archery, Bouldering |
Cycling | Biking, Mountain Biking, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking |
Swim | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
On the water | Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing |
RACKET SPORTS | Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball |
SNOW & WINTER | Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing |
Sport profiles | Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Soccer, Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball |
IN THE RING | Boxing, Mixed martial arts |
OTHER ACTIVITY PROFILES | Inline Skating |
Incident Detection during select activities | Yes |
Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | Yes |
Assistance | Yes |
LiveTrack | Yes |
Live Event Sharing | Android™ Only |
Step counter | Yes |
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | Yes |
Calories Burned | Yes |
Floors climbed | Yes |
Distance travelled | Yes |
Intensity minutes | Yes |
TrueUp™ | Yes |
Move IQ™ | Yes |
Garmin Connect™ Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Strength workouts | Yes |
HIIT workouts | Yes |
Yoga workouts | Yes |
Pilates workouts | Yes |
On-screen workout animations | Yes |
On-Screen Workout Muscle Map | Yes |
Automatic rep counting | Yes |
Customisable screen(s) | Yes |
Downloadable training plans | Yes |
Course guidance | Yes |
HR zones | Yes |
HR alerts | Yes |
HR calories | Yes |
% HR max | Yes |
% HRR | Yes |
Recovery time | Yes |
Auto max HR | Yes |
Race glance/widget | Yes |
HRV Status | Yes |
HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices) | Yes |
Respiration rate (during exercise) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
GPS speed and distance | Yes |
Customisable activity profiles | Yes |
Auto Pause® | Yes |
Interval training | Yes |
Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection) | Yes |
Advanced workouts | Yes |
HRM running pace and distance | Yes |
Auto Lap® | Yes |
Manual lap | Yes |
Rest timer | Yes |
Configurable lap alerts | Yes |
VO2 Max (Run) | Yes |
VO2 Max (Trail Run) | Yes |
Load ratio | Yes |
TRAINING LOAD | Yes |
Training load focus | Yes |
Training effect | Yes |
Training effect (anaerobic) | Yes |
Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) | Yes |
Customisable alerts | Yes |
Audio prompts | Yes |
Multisport auto transition | Yes |
Finish time | Yes |
Virtual partner | Yes |
Race an activity | Yes |
Auto multisport activities | Yes |
Multi-sport | Yes |
Touch and/or button lock | Yes |
Auto scroll | Yes |
Activity history on watch | Yes |
Physio TrueUp | Yes |
Unified training status | Yes |
GPS-based distance, time and pace | Yes |
Running dynamics | Yes |
Vertical oscillation and ratio | Yes |
Ground contact time and balance | Yes |
Stride length (real time) | Yes |
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | Yes |
Running power | Yes |
Grade-adjusted pace | Yes |
Performance condition | Yes |
Lactate threshold | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies | Yes |
Run workouts | Yes |
Trail run auto climb | Yes |
Race predictor | Yes |
Course- and weather-specific race predictor | Yes |
Foot pod capable | Yes |
Run/Walk/Stand detection | Yes |
Point-to-point navigation | Yes |
Bread crumbtrail in real time | Yes |
Back to start | Yes |
TracBack® | Yes |
UltraTrac mode | Yes |
Up Ahead | Yes |
Elevation profile | Yes |
Distance to destination | Yes |
Barometric trend indicator with storm alert | Yes |
Vertical speed | Yes |
Total ascent/descent | Yes |
AUTO REST | Yes |
Future elevation plot | Yes |
Projected waypoint | Yes |
Sun and moon information | Yes |
Courses | Yes |
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | Yes |
Race an activity | Yes |
Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | Yes |
Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters) | Yes |
Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display) | Yes |
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | Yes |
Compatible with Varia™ lights | Yes |
Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | Yes |
Power meter compatible | Yes |
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | Yes |
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | Yes |
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | Yes |
Drill logging (pool swim only) | Yes |
Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | Yes |
"Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only) | Yes |
Auto rest (pool swim only) | Yes |
Time and distance alerts | Yes |
Pacing alerts (pool swim only) | Yes |
Countdown start | Yes |
Pool swim workouts | Yes |
Critical swim speed | Yes |
Underwater wrist-based heart rate | Yes |
Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) | Yes (with HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro or HRM-Pro Plus) |
Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) |