Forerunner 255 Music

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.

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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.

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.

READY FOR THE LONG RUN

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.

(ALMOST) AS LIGHT AS A FEATHER

With its sleek design and 49g weight, you'll almost forget you're wearing Forerunner® 255 Music — even when you're asleep.

SWEAT-READY MATERIALS

Featuring easy-to-use buttons and a silicone band, this watch is ready to wear — and tear — with durable Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3.

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Morning Report

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.

HRV Status

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.

Built-in Sports Apps

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.

Daily Suggested Workouts

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.

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.

Triathlon & 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.

Wrist-based Running Dynamics

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

Wrist-based Running Power

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.

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.

Pacepro Feature

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.

Grade-adjusted Pace

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.

Training Status

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.

Acute Load

See your training history, and compare the intensity of your recent workouts to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

Training Effect

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.

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.

Courses

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.

Track Running

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.

Visual Race Predictor

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.

Cross Training

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.

Targeted Adaptive Coaching

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.

A depth of wellness insights.

Wrist-based Heart Rate

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.

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 energy.

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 process.

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.

Pulse Ox Sensor

This wrist-based pulse ox sensor monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.

Women's Health Tracking

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.

Intensity Minutes

Our intensity minutes feature tells you when during the day you earned them and during what activity.

Stress Tracking

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.

Health Snapshot Feature

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.

Stay connected at every step.
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StatIQ Technology

Multi-band GNSS with SatIQ technology ensures the best positioning accuracy in any environment while also optimising the device’s battery life.

Music on Your Wrist

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

Garmin Pay Contactless Payments

Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payments1 through participating providers.

Smart Notifications

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.

Safety & Tracking Features

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.

Livetrack Feature

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.

Garmin Connect App

See your health and fitness information, connect and compete with friends, sign up for challenges to earn badges and more.

Connect IQ Store

Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app downloaded on your compatible smartphone.

Specs

What You'll Love

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

General

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

Clock Features

Time/date yes
GPS time sync Yes
Automatic daylight saving time Yes
Alarm clock Yes
Timer Yes
Stopwatch Yes
Sunrise/sunset times Yes

Health & Wellness Monitoring

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

Sensors

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

Daily Smart Features

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

Activity Profiles

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

Safety and Tracking Features

Incident Detection during select activities Yes
Incident detection alert on phone for wearables Yes
Assistance Yes
LiveTrack Yes
Live Event Sharing Android™ Only

Activity Tracking Features

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)

Fitness Equipment/Gym

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

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

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

Running Features

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

Outdoor Recreation

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

Cycling Features

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

Swimming Features

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)

Kid Activity Tracking Features

Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app)