Forerunner 955

You're aiming for the podium. Lead the pack with the Forerunner® 955, the premium GPS running and triathlon smartwatch.

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LEAD THE PACK

Pushing toward the podium? Get this on your wrist. Train your best, perform your best, and put yourself in the running at your next race.

Get up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch mode for a full picture of your health — from sleep to training.

Swipe through stats and maps with a new, responsive touchscreen.

Confidently run any route using full-colour, built-in maps and multi-band GPS.

Know when you’re primed for a productive session with training readiness.

Plan your strategy with daily suggested workouts, course details and more on the race widget.

Know if you're undertraining or overdoing it, with an improved training status feature

EXTENDED BATTERY LIFE

Click or swipe through maps and stats with traditional button controls or a new, responsive touchscreen.

TOUCHSCREEN & BUTTONS

Click or swipe through maps and stats with traditional button controls or a new, responsive touchscreen.

TAILORED TO THE DEDICATED

Clocking in at just 52 grams, the Forerunner 955 smartwatch will keep you light on your feet and attuned to your body.

MADE FOR MEDALS

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.

Morning Report

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

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.

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.

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 & Multi-sport 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

Get a continuous measurement on your wrist of how much power you’re applying to the road as you run when using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro™ heart rate monitor.

Endurance Score

This feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts and combines training data from all of your athletic pursuits to help you understand how training impacts your overall endurance. This dynamic measurement uses your VO2 max, short-term/long-term training loads and other factors to gauge your fitness progress beyond just VO2 max.

Hill Score

This feature measures your capability for running uphill and evaluates your progress over time based on your VO2 max and training history. It measures your running strength on steep ascents and running endurance on long ascents, and it provides a score based on your performance over time.

Real-Time Stamina

Use this data to track and manage your exertion — and help avoid overexerting at the start of your run or bike.

Running Dynamics

When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro heart rate monitor, the Forerunner 955 watch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, and more.

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

Compare the intensity of your recent workouts to the optimal range to improve your fitness and training history.

Training Effect

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

PacePro™ Feature

The PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.

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.

VO2 Max

Train smarter with VO2 Max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. This metric even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.

Performance Condition

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

Sync Training Plans

Get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the Garmin Connect™ app, or sync seamlessly to your Forerunner from other platforms including TrainingPeaks® and TrainerRoad.

Built-In Sports App

Switch up your workouts with activity profiles for cycling, triathlon, pool and open-water swimming, track running and more. For races and brick workouts, switch sports with a single button press.

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.

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.

Go the distance. Know the distance.

SatIQ™ Technology

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

Full-Colour Mapping

Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 955 provides full-colour, built-in mapping to keep you on track.

Turn-By-Turn Navigation

Follow a course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.

Round-Trip Routing

With Trendline™ popularity routing, it’s easy to find the best local paths. Just enter a desired distance, and Forerunner 955 will suggest courses that bring you back to your starting point.

Up Ahead

Get at-a-glance awareness for points of interest along the course. In addition, view performance metrics, split times and distance/elevation — plus a summary of key course points coming up.

ClimbPro Feature

Use ClimbPro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.

Safety & Tracking Features

If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, Assistance and Incident Detection features3 send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is enabled by default for select activity profiles only.

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 smartwatch.

Be in touch with your body.

Wrist-Based Heart Rate

The watch constantly samples your heart rate4 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.

Health Snapshot™ Feature

Log a 2-minute session to record key stats, including heart rate4, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats via the Garmin Connect™ app on your compatible smartphone to share.

Stay connected while you’re breaking records.

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 payments6 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.

Smart Trainer Control

Control your Tacx® Smart trainer via ANT+® technology for course simulation, automatic resistance changes and workout prompts when you use courses or workouts from your watch.

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

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch 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 15 days
BUILT-IN MAPPING Yes
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 readiness Yes
Training status Improved
Watch display type Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
Touchscreen Yes
Water rating 5 ATM

General

Strap material Silicone
Lens material Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
Bezel material Fiber-reinforced polymer
QuickFit™ watch band compatible Yes (22 mm compatible)
Physical size 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4 (mm) Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm
Weight 52 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 15 days
GPS-only mode without music: Up to 42 hours
All-Systems GNSS mode plus Multi-Band with music: Up to 8.5 hours
All Systems GNSS mode plus Multi-Band without music: Up to 20 hours
Ultratrac mode: Up to 80 hours
Charging method Garmin proprietary plug charger
Memory/history 32 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

Daily Smart Features

Connectivity Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
Connect IQ™ Yes
On-device Connect IQ™ Store Yes
Smart Notifications Yes
Text response/reject phone call with text Yes (Android™ only)
View images from notifications Yes (Android™ only)
Morning report Yes
Calendar Yes
Weather forecasts Yes
Realtime settings sync Yes
Battery Saver Yes

Health & Wellness Monitoring

Wrist-based heart rate 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

Training Features

VO2 Max Yes (Run and Trail Run)
Real-time stamina Yes
Training Load Yes
Training Status Yes
Training Effect Yes (Aerobic and Anaerobic)
Recovery Time Yes
Heat and Altitude Acclimation Yes
Daily Suggested Workouts Yes
Race Predictor Yes
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies 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 Yes (real time)
Cadence Yes
Running power Yes
Grade-adjusted pace Yes
Performance condition Yes
Lactate threshold Yes (with compatible accessory)
Hill score Yes
Trail run auto climb Yes

Swimming Features

Pool swim metrics Yes (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, SWOLF)
Open-water swim metrics Yes (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, SWOLF)
Stroke type detection Yes (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
Drill logging Yes
Auto rest Yes
Critical swim speed Yes
Underwater wrist heart rate Yes

Cycling Features

Courses Yes
Bike lap and power Yes (with power sensor)
Race an activity Yes
MTB Grit & Flow Yes
Advanced cycling dynamics Yes
FTP (Functional Threshold Power) Yes (with compatible accessory)
Compatible with Varia™ devices Yes (radar, lights, Vision)
Power meter compatible Yes

Outdoor Recreation Features

Point-to-point navigation Yes
Bread crumb trail in real time Yes
Back to start Yes
TracBack® Yes
UltraTrac mode Yes
Around Me mode Yes
ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner Yes
Up Ahead Yes
Elevation profile Yes
Future elevation plot Yes
Preloaded maps Yes (roads and trails)

Golfing Features

Preloaded courses Yes (43,000 courses worldwide)
Yardage to F/M/B Yes
Automatic shot detection Yes
Digital scorecard Yes
Stat tracking Yes
Green View with manual pin position Yes
PinPointer Yes

Activity Tracking Features

Step counter Yes
Auto goal Yes
Calories burned Yes
Floors climbed Yes
Distance travelled Yes
Intensity minutes Yes
TrueUp™ Yes
Move IQ™ Yes

Safety and Tracking Features

Incident Detection Yes
Assistance Yes
LiveTrack Yes
Group LiveTrack Yes
Live Event Sharing Android™ Only
Spectator messaging Yes (with compatible smartphone)