This easy-to-use GPS smartwatch is designed for people of all skill levels to track their stats and chase their fitness goals.
Track your time, distance pace and speed during your run or walk with built-in GPS.
Get up to 2 weeks of battery life. Because less charging is always a good thing.
Monitor your overall health and wellness with wrist-based heart rate1 and more.
Take guesswork out of training. This smartwatch suggests runs tailored to you.
High-end running features help you meet your potential. Minus the high-end price tag.
Track more than just running with an array of built-in activity profiles.
Run to your heart’s content with up to 2 weeks of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 20 hours in GPS mode.
Lightweight and comfortable, this smartwatch is the perfect fit for running and for everyday life.
Whether you’re running a 5K or sweating it out during HIIT sessions, experience the ultimate in comfort with this sporty silicone band.
Track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance, pace and intervals.
Get heart rate data1 along with alerts if your heart rate stays high while you’re at rest. Even gauge how hard your heart is working during activities.
These adaptive training plans feature guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals. Workouts sync right to your watch from the Garmin Connect™ app2.
For personalised training guidance, get daily run recommendations of varying intensities based on your training history, fitness level and recovery time.
To help you plan your race day strategy, this feature offers GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance in the Garmin Connect™ app. So you can tailor your efforts to what’s ahead.
Want some guidance to help you meet your goal? Select a distance for your run, and you’ll be able to see a data screen that shows your estimated finish time.
When you’re ready to hit the track for some speedwork, use the built-in track run activity to record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres.
Want to improve your running form? Use the cadence alerts to know when you’ve gone outside your target cadence range.
Giving your body time to recover between training sessions is crucial. After each workout, the built-in recovery time feature will let you know how long to rest before another big effort.
This specialised tool takes into account your fitness level and training history to help you work toward your race goal and see the impact of training on your predicted finish time.
Switch up your workout routine with activity profiles for track or virtual running, pool swimming, Pilates, HIIT and even breathwork.
While you’re out and about, Forerunner 55 tracks steps, intensity minutes and more1.
Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day. Relax reminders will even prompt you to do a short breathing activity.
Track your body’s energy levels so you can find the best times for activity and rest.
See when during the day you earned intensity minutes from moderate and vigorous physical activity.
This feature uses chronological age, resting heart rate and other factors to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. Age is just a number, after all.
See how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork activities.
Use the Garmin Connect app2 to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more.
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your smartwatch when paired with your compatible smartphone.
When your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or — during select outdoor activities — automatically with built-in incident detection3.
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps from the Connect IQ Store2.
Easily control the music playing on your paired smartphone, so you can skip songs without missing a beat.
Upload your activities to the Garmin Connect app to interact with a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete — and even share their triumphs via social media.
General |
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| Lens material | Chemically strengthened glass |
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| Quick release bands | Yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Physical size | 42 x 42 x 11.6 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm |
| Weight | 37 g |
| Water rating | 5 ATM |
| Display Type | Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
| Display Size | 1.04″ (26.3 mm) diameter |
| Display Resolution | 208 x 208 pixels |
| Colour display | |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 2 weeks GPS mode: Up to 20 hours See details |
| Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
| Memory/history | 200 hours of activity data |
Clock features |
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| Time/date | |
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| GPS time sync | |
| Automatic daylight saving time | |
| Alarm clock | |
| Timer | |
| Stopwatch | |
| Sunrise/sunset times | |
Health monitoring |
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| Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | |
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| 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 | |
| Sleep | Yes (Advanced) |
| Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Women’s Health | |
Sensors |
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| GPS | |
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| GLONASS | |
| Galileo | |
| Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | |
| Accelerometer | |
Daily smart features |
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| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+® |
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| Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | |
| Smart Notifications | |
| Calendar | |
| Weather | |
| Controls smartphone music | |
| Find my phone | |
| Find my watch | |
| Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
Safety and tracking features |
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| Incident Detection during select activities | |
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| Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | |
| Assistance | |
| LiveTrack | |
| Live Event Sharing | Android™ Only |
Activity tracking features |
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| Step counter | |
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| 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 | |
| Distance travelled | |
| Intensity minutes | |
| TrueUp™ | |
| Move IQ™ | |
Fitness equipment/gym |
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| Available gym activity profiles | Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, HIIT, Pilates, Yoga |
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Training, planning and analysis features |
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| HR Zones | |
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| HR Alerts | |
| HR Calories | |
| Recovery Time | |
| Auto Max HR | |
| HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) | |
| Respiration Rate (During Exercise) | Yoga and breathwork only |
| GPS speed and distance | |
| Customisable screen(s) | |
| Customisable activity profiles | |
| Auto Pause® | |
| Interval training | |
| Advanced workouts | |
| Downloadable training plans | |
| HRM running pace and distance | |
| Auto Lap® | |
| Manual lap | |
| Configurable lap alerts | |
| VO2 Max (Run) | |
| Improved Recovery Time | Yes (limited) |
| Daily Suggested Workouts | Yes (limited) |
| Audio prompts | |
| Finish time | |
| Touch and/or button lock | |
| Activity history on watch | |
| Physio TrueUp | |
Running features |
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| Available run profiles | Running, Treadmill Running, Track Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running |
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| GPS-based distance, time and pace | |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | |
| PacePro™ Pacing Strategies | |
| Run workouts | |
| Race predictor | |
| Foot pod capable | |
| Run/Walk/Stand detection | |
Outdoor recreation |
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| Area calculation | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
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| Fish forecast | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Sun and moon information | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Cycling features |
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| Available cycling profiles | Biking, Indoor Biking |
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| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | |
Swimming features |
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| Available swim profiles | Pool Swimming |
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| 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 |
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| Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) |
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