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.
You're aiming for the podium. Lead the pack with the Forerunner® 955, the premium GPS running and triathlon smartwatch.
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
Click or swipe through maps and stats with traditional button controls or a new, responsive touchscreen.
Click or swipe through maps and stats with traditional button controls or a new, responsive touchscreen.
Clocking in at just 52 grams, the Forerunner 955 smartwatch will keep you light on your feet and attuned to your body.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Use this data to track and manage your exertion — and help avoid overexerting at the start of your run or bike.
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.
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.
Compare the intensity of your recent workouts to the optimal range to improve your fitness and training history.
See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback.
The PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Multi-band GNSS with SatIQ technology ensures the best positioning accuracy in any environment while also optimising the device’s battery life.
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.
Follow a course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.
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.
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.
Use ClimbPro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 payments6 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.
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.
See your health and fitness information, connect and compete with friends, sign up for challenges to earn badges and more.
Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch from the Connect IQ Store app downloaded on your compatible smartphone.
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 |
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 |
Time/date | Yes |
GPS time sync | Yes |
Automatic daylight saving time | Yes |
Alarm clock | Yes |
Timer | Yes |
Stopwatch | Yes |
Sunrise/sunset times | Yes |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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) |
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 |
Step counter | Yes |
Auto goal | Yes |
Calories burned | Yes |
Floors climbed | Yes |
Distance travelled | Yes |
Intensity minutes | Yes |
TrueUp™ | Yes |
Move IQ™ | Yes |
Incident Detection | Yes |
Assistance | Yes |
LiveTrack | Yes |
Group LiveTrack | Yes |
Live Event Sharing | Android™ Only |
Spectator messaging | Yes (with compatible smartphone) |