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You don’t just run. You’ve moved beyond that. Which is why you need Forerunner® 165 — the purpose-built GPS running smartwatch that helps you meet your goals with personalised adaptive training plans and a bright display to light up your progress.
1.2″ COLOURFUL AMOLED DISPLAY
UP TO 11 DAYS OF BATTERY LIFE IN SMARTWATCH MODE
TRAINING METRICS AND RECOVERY INSIGHTS
25+ BUILT-IN GPS AND INDOOR SPORTS APPS
TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS
MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST
This easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch provides the essential features you need to take your running to the next level — including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate1.
Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.
Get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans from expert coaches to help you take on a new challenge.
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.
Receive an overview of your sleep1 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.
With training effect, you can see how your workouts impact your fitness and understand the primary benefit from training runs and workouts.
With up to 11 days in smartwatch mode and up to 19 hours in GPS mode, you’ll get a more complete picture of your health and training.
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.
Understand how your body is recovering with sleep score, get a breakdown of your sleep stages, and gain detailed insights for improved sleep quality1.
Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest1. Even get details and insights on how sleep, naps, activities and stress impact your energy.
Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app and from favourite third-party platforms, and sync directly to your watch.
Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and even a marathon.
Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and what their ideal time and duration should be.
Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy and get exercise and nutrition education.
Constant measurement of your heart rate helps you gauge how hard you work during activities, so you can stay in the know all day and night1.
Get measurements of crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more to help improve your running form.
See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.
Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts.
Browse the Garmin Connect app for dozens of free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts. You can even build your own in the app and send them to your watch.
Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.
Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist1.
Our built-in sensors connect to multiple satellite systems so you track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance and pace.
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.
Tap in to 25+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.
Record accurate lap distances, and see your distances in metres.
Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening with your wireless headphones.
If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location3. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.
Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your multisport watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
Friends and family can follow your real-time location3 and view preplanned courses.
What You’ll Love | |
| Sleep Score and Insights | |
|---|---|
| Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 11 days |
| Daily Suggested Workouts | Yes (7 days) |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | Yes (spot-check, during sleep, all day) |
| Garmin Pay™ | |
| Music storage | |
| Watch display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
| Touchscreen | |
| Water rating | 5 ATM |
General | |
| Strap material | Silicone |
|---|---|
| Lens material | Chemically strengthened glass |
| Bezel material | Fibre-reinforced polymer |
| Quick release bands | Yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Physical size | 43 x 43 x 11.6 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm |
| Weight | 39 g |
| Display Size | 30.4 mm (1.2″) diameter |
| Display Resolution | 390×390 pixels |
| Colour display | |
| Large font option | |
| Battery type | Lithium ion |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 20 days GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 19 hours All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours All-Systems GNSS mode with music: Up to 6.5 hours See details |
| Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
| Memory/history | 4 GB |
Clock features | |
| Time/date | |
|---|---|
| GPS time sync | |
| Automatic daylight saving time | |
| Alarm clock | |
| Timer | |
| Stopwatch | |
| Sunrise/sunset times | |
Health & Wellness Monitoring | |
| Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | |
|---|---|
| Daily Resting Heart Rate | |
| Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | Yes (high and low) |
| Respiration Rate (24×7) | |
| Fitness Age | |
| Body Battery™ Energy Monitor | |
| All-day Stress | |
| Relaxation reminders | |
| Relaxation Breathing Timer | |
| Meditation | |
| Breathwork | |
| Sleep | Yes (Advanced) |
| Nap detection | |
| Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Women’s Health | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Health Snapshot | |
Sensors | |
| GPS | |
|---|---|
| GLONASS | |
| Galileo | |
| Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor | |
| Barometric altimeter | |
| Compass | |
| Accelerometer | |
| Thermometer | |
| Ambient light sensor | |
Daily smart features | |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® |
|---|---|
| Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | |
| On-device Connect IQ™ Store | |
| Smart Notifications | |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | |
| View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only) | |
| Morning report | |
| Calendar | |
| Weather forecasts | |
| Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile | |
| Battery Saver – customisable low power watch | |
| Controls smartphone music | |
| Plays and controls watch music | |
| Find my phone | |
| Find my watch | |
| Find My Phone during GPS activity | |
| Compatible with Garmin Messenger app | |
| Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
| Garmin Share | |
| Passcode | |
Workout and Training Plans | |
| Cardio workouts | |
|---|---|
| Strength workouts | |
| HIIT workouts | |
| Yoga workouts | |
| Pilates workouts | |
Activity profiles | |
| Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing |
|---|---|
| WELLNESS | Walking, Pilates, Yoga |
| INDOOR RUNNING | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running |
| Outdoor running | Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running |
| Outdoor recreation | Hiking |
| Cycling | Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Swim | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
| Racket sports | Tennis, Pickleball, Padel |
Safety and tracking features | |
| Incident Detection during select activities | |
|---|---|
| Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | |
| Assistance | |
| LiveTrack | |
| Live Event Sharing | Android™ Only |
Activity tracking features | |
| Step counter | |
|---|---|
| Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | |
| Calories Burned | |
| Floors climbed | |
| Distance travelled | |
| Intensity minutes | |
| TrueUp™ | |
| Move IQ™ | |
| Garmin Connect™ Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
| Automatic rep counting | |
Training, planning and analysis features | |
| Customisable screen(s) | |
|---|---|
| Downloadable training plans | |
| Course guidance | |
| HR Zones | |
| HR Alerts | |
| HR Calories | |
| % HR Max | |
| % HRR | |
| Recovery Time | |
| Auto Max HR | |
| Race glance/widget | |
| HRV Status | |
| HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices) | |
| Respiration Rate (During Exercise) | Yoga and breathwork only |
| GPS speed and distance | |
| Customisable activity profiles | |
| Auto Pause® | |
| Interval training | |
| Advanced workouts | |
| HRM running pace and distance | |
| Auto Lap® | |
| Manual lap | |
| Rest timer | |
| Configurable lap alerts | |
| VO2 Max (Run) | |
| VO2 Max (Trail Run) | |
| Training Effect | |
| Training Effect (Anaerobic) | |
| Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) | |
| Voice alerts | |
| Finish time | |
| Touch and/or button lock | |
| Activity history on watch | |
| Physio TrueUp | |
Running features | |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | |
|---|---|
| Running dynamics | |
| Vertical oscillation and ratio | |
| Ground contact time and balance | Yes (but not balance) |
| Stride length (real time) | |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | |
| Running power | |
| PacePro™ Pacing Strategies | |
| Run workouts | |
| Race predictor | |
| Course- and weather-specific race predictor | |
| Foot pod capable | |
| Run/Walk/Stand detection | |
Outdoor recreation | |
| Point-to-point navigation | |
|---|---|
| Breadcrumb trail in real time | |
| Back to start | |
| TracBack® | |
| UltraTrac mode | |
| Elevation profile | |
| Distance to destination | |
| Total ascent/descent | |
| Rest Timer (Ultra Run only) | |
| Auto Rest | |
| Future elevation plot | |
| Area calculation | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Fish forecast | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Sun and moon information | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Cycling features | |
| Courses | |
|---|---|
| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | |
| Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | |
| Compatible with Varia™ lights | |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | |
Swimming features | |
| Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | |
|---|---|
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | |
| Drill logging (pool swim only) | |
| Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | |
| “Repeat on” rest timer (pool swim only) | |
| Auto rest (pool swim only) | |
| Time and distance alerts | |
| Countdown start | |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | |
Kid activity tracking features | |
| Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) |
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Security Information | |
| Security updates until at least (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2026-02-20 |
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