Forerunner 955 Solar

You're ready to perform your best and outshine the competition. This lightweight GPS running and triathlon smartwatch with solar charging can help.

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OUTSHINE THE COMPETITION

Pushing toward the podium? Get this lightweight smartwatch on your wrist. Train your best, perform your best, and outlast the pack with a Power Glass™ solar charging lens to extend battery life.

Get up to 20 days of battery life in smartwatch mode for a full picture of your health — from sleep to training.

Harness the power of the sun, and get up to 49 hours of battery life in GPS mode with solar charging.

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.

SOLAR POWERED BATTERY

Get up to 20 days of battery life in smartwatch mode with solar charging1. In GPS mode, get up to 42 hours and up to 49 hours when solar charging2. With UltraTrac™ mode, go even longer with up to 110 hours when solar charging.

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.

More ways to track health & wellness.

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/20 days with solar
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)
Solar charging Yes
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 53 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/20 days with solar*
GPS-only mode without music: Up to 42 hours/49 hours with solar**
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/22 hours with solar**
Ultratrac mode: Up to 80 hours/110 hours with solar**

*Solar charging, assuming all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions
** Solar charging, assuming use in 50,000 lux conditions
Charging method Garmin proprietary plug charger
Memory/history 32 GB

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

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

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 on watch Yes (Android™ only)
Morning report Yes
Calendar Yes
Weather forecasts Yes
Realtime settings sync Yes
Battery Saver Yes

Activity Profiles

Gym Strength, HIIT, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing, Jump Roping
Multisport Triathlon, Swimming/Running
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, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Golfing, Disc Golf, Archery
Cycling Biking, Road biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel biking, Bike commuting, Bike touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross
Swim Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
On the water Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing
Motor Sports Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motorcrossing, ATVing, Snowmobile
RACKET SPORTS Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
SNOW & WINTER Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing, XC Skate 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

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

Golfing Features

Preloaded courses Yes (43,000 courses worldwide)
Yardage to F/M/B Yes
Yardage to layups/doglegs Yes
Measures shot distance Automatic
DIGITAL SCORECARD Yes
Stat tracking Yes
Garmin AutoShot™ Yes
Auto CourseView updates Yes
GREEN VIEW WITH MANUAL PIN POSITION Yes
Hazards and course targets Yes
PinPointer Yes
Tournament legal Yes

Swimming Features

Open-water swim metrics Yes
Pool swim metrics Yes
Stroke type detection Yes (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
Drill logging Yes
Basic rest timer Yes
Critical swim speed Yes
Underwater wrist-based heart rate Yes
Pool swim workouts 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
Elevation profile Yes
Preloaded road and trail maps Yes

Cycling Features

Courses Yes
Bike lap and lap maximum power Yes (with power sensor)
Race an activity Yes
FTP (Functional Threshold Power) Yes (with compatible accessory)
Garmin cycle map Yes
MTB Grit & Flow Yes
Advanced cycling dynamics Yes
Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ Yes
Compatible with Varia Vision™ Yes
Compatible with Varia™ radar Yes
Compatible with Varia™ lights Yes

Safety and Tracking Features

Incident Detection during select activities Yes
Incident detection alert on phone Yes
Assistance Yes
LiveTrack Yes
Spectator messaging Yes (with compatible smartphone)
Group LiveTrack Yes
Live Event Sharing Android™ Only

Tactical Features

Dual grid coordinates Yes
XERO™ Locations Yes

Fitness Equipment Features

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