Forerunner 965

You want to be recognised under the lights. The podium is yours when you train brilliantly with the bright OMOLED display and premium running and triathlon features of the Forerunner® 965 smartwatch.

R 15,299

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TRAIN BRILLIANTLY

WITH AN OMOLED DISPLAY

What if every run was a podium-worthy performance? And from training readiness, you knew you were primed to reap the rewards? With the Forerunner 965 smartwatch, stats and insights will be lit up on a bright and colourful AMOLED display. And soon, you too will be standing in the light.

1.4″ BRIGHT AND COLOURFUL AMOLED DISPLAY

UP TO 31 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE IN GPS MODE

ADVANCED TRAINING METRICS AND RECOVERY INSIGHTS

BUILT-IN MAPS WITH SATIQ™ AND MULTI-BAND GPS

LIGHTWEIGHT TITANIUM BEZEL

TOUCHSCREEN & BUTTONS

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE

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.

Full-colour Mapping

Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 965 provides full-colour, built-in mapping to keep you on track.

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 multi-sport profiles.

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. For more personalised workouts, select plans even adapt based on your performance and health metrics

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.

Training Status

Using 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.

BUILT FOR THE DETERMINED

PLAN

Morning Report

Get a customisable overview of your sleep1, training outlook, HRV status, weather and more as soon as you wake up.

Courses With Turn-By-Turn Directions

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app or sync from your favourite third-party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.

Round-Trip Routing

Enter how far you want to go and get suggested routes that will bring you back. Even use TrendLine™ to find the best local paths.

Recovery Time

Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.

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.

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.

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.

HRV Status

Gain a better understanding of your overall health, recovery and training performance while you sleep.

Women’s Health Tracking

Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.

Race Predictor

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.

PREPARE

Wrist-Based Running Dynamics

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

Wrist-Based Heart Rate

This running watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities.

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.

Acute Load

Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

Load Ratio

Track short-term to mid-term load ratio to keep your rate of training growth within bounds that will help you stay healthy and avoid setbacks.

Training Effect

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.

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.

VO2 Max

See your current fitness level and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.

Stress Tracking

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

Health Snapshot

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.

Pulse Ox Sensor

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep.

Cross Training

Forerunner 965 running smartwatch is preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.

PERFORM

Wrist-Based Running Power

See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

Satiq™ Technology & Multi-Band GPS

Get superior positioning accuracy and optimised battery life.

PacePro™ Feature

Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.

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.

ClimbPro

See real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs.

Real-Time Stamina

Prevent burning out and use this data to track and manage your exertion.

Up Ahead

Get at-a-glance awareness for points of interest along the course, such as aid stations.

Built-In Sports Apps

Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

CONNECT

Music

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

Safety & Tracking

If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.

Garmin Pay™ Contactless Payments

Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

Smart Notifications

Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.

LiveTrack

Friends and family can follow your real-time location and view preplanned courses.

Garmin Connect App

See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.

Connect IQ™ Store

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.

Specs

What You'll Love

Sleep Score and Insights Yes
Battery life (smartwatch mode) Up to 23 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)
Watch display type AMOLED; optional always-on mode
MULTI-BAND GPS Yes
Training readiness Yes
Training status Improved
JET LAG ADVISER Yes

General

Bezel material Titanium
Lens material Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
Physical size 47.1 x 47.1 x 13.2 (mm) Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-205 mm
Display Size 35.4 mm (1.4") diameter
Display Resolution 454 x 454 pixels
Battery life Smartwatch mode: Up to 23 days
GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 31 hours
SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 22 hours
All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 19 hours
GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 10.5 hours
SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 9 hours
All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 8.5 hours

Advanced Smart Features

RED SHIFT MODE Yes
Connectivity Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
On-device Connect IQ™ Store Yes
Morning report Yes
Text response/reject phone call Yes (Android™ only)
View notification images Yes (Android™ only)

Navigation Features

NextFork™ navigation Yes
SatIQ™ Technology Yes
Multi-band GNSS Yes
ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner Yes
Up Ahead Yes
Real-time stamina Yes

Health Monitoring

JET LAG ADVISER Yes
Advanced Sleep Monitoring Yes (with Sleep Coach)
Breathwork Yes
HRV Status Yes
Health Snapshot Yes
Fitness Age Yes

Advanced Training Features

Power Guide Yes
Power Curve Workouts Yes
Course-specific Race Predictor Yes
Virtual Running Yes
Training Load Focus Yes
Unified Training Status Yes

Running Features

Running Dynamics Yes
Ground contact time and balance Yes (with compatible accessory)
Stride length Yes (real time)
Running power Yes
Trail run auto climb Yes
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies Yes

Cycling Features

Power Guide Yes
Power Curve Workouts Yes
MTB Grit & Flow Yes
Advanced cycling dynamics Yes
Varia™ compatibility Yes (radar, lights, Vision)
Vector™/Rally™ compatible Yes

Swimming Features

Pool swim metrics Yes (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, SWOLF)
Open-water metrics Yes (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, SWOLF)
Stroke detection Yes (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
Critical swim speed Yes
Underwater HR monitoring Yes (wrist-based and external HRM support)

Golf Features

Preloaded courses Yes (43,000 worldwide)
AutoShot™ detection Yes
Green View Yes (with manual pin positioning)
PinPointer Yes
Digital scorecard Yes
Statistics tracking Yes (strokes, putts, greens, fairways)

Outdoor Recreation Features

NextFork™ navigation Yes
Point-to-point navigation Yes
Real-time breadcrumb Yes
TracBack® Yes
UltraTrac mode Yes
Up Ahead Yes
ClimbPro™ Yes
Elevation profile Yes
Future elevation plot Yes
Barometric trend alert Yes (with storm alert)

Activity Profiles

Running Running, Trail Running, Track Running, Ultra Running, Virtual Running
Cycling Road, Mountain, Gravel, Touring, eBike, eMountain, Indoor, Cyclocross
Water Sports Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing
Winter Sports Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic, XC Skate, Backcountry, Ice Skating
Racket Sports Tennis, Pickleball, Padel, Squash, Badminton, Table Tennis

Safety & Tracking

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

Sensors

GPS Yes
GLONASS Yes
Galileo Yes
SatIQ™ Technology Yes
Garmin Elevate™ Yes
Barometric altimeter Yes
Compass Yes
Gyroscope Yes
Accelerometer Yes
Thermometer Yes
Ambient light sensor Yes