Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar GPS Multisport Smartwatch

Set a new best time – with the GARMIN Forerunner® 955 Solar!
With this high-quality GPS running and triathlon watch, you can train intensively and be optimally prepared for your next competition.

The solar-powered lens of the elegant multisport watch ensures an extra long battery life, pre-installed maps show you new routes and the practical music function provides you with a motivating soundtrack.

Thanks to new features such as training readiness, stamina and HRV measurement, as well as the familiar comprehensive training functions and physiological readings, you get all the data you need to make your training sessions more efficient.


Highlights:

• BATTERY PACK WITH SOLAR CHARGING: Get up to 20 days of battery life in smartwatch mode with solar charging. In GPS mode, get up to 42 hours and up to 49 hours when solar charging. With UltraTrac™ mode, go even longer with up to 110 hours when solar charging.
• TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS: Click or swipe through maps and stats with traditional buttons or the effective touchscreen.
• TAILORED TO THE DEDICATED: Clocking in at just 52 g, the Forerunner 955 smartwatch will keep you light on your feet and attuned to your body.


Made for victory!

• TRAINING READINESS: Training readiness combines your acute training load with other health data such as recovery, sleep or stress and individually classifies your readiness for the next training session.
• MORNING REPORT*: Get an overview of your sleep and training recommendations first thing in the morning, along with HRV status and weather information. You can even customise the report to fit your needs.
• HRV STATUS: Record your heart rate variability during sleep and get exciting insights into health, recovery and fitness thanks to a daily and 7-day average.
• RACE ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS: Get ready for your next race, including marathons, with training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion predictions. Just enter your race, and we will build a plan that will help you meet your goals.
• DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS: Receive individually created training plans. After each run, the data is adjusted to your performance and recovery, as well as to races that are coming up according to your Garmin Connect™ calendar.
• GARMIN COACH: Start an interactive workout and get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half marathon training plans from expert coaches.
• TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT APP: Switch to the next sport at the touch of a button. Integrated sports apps for triathlon, duathlon, dual training and SwimRun make it possible. Alternatively, create your own multisport profile.
• WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS: Your smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
• WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER: Look at how much power you're putting on the trail or the road. This way you can regulate your effort and train even more optimally.
• ENDURANCE SCORE: This function measures your ability to sustain prolonged efforts. It combines training data from all your athletic pursuits to help you understand how training impacts your overall endurance. This dynamic measurement uses your VO2max, short-term/long-term training loads and other factors to gauge your fitness progress beyond just VO2max.
• HILL SCORE: This feature measures your capability for running uphill and evaluates your progress over time based on your VO2max and training history. It measures your running strength on steep ascents and running endurance on long ascents and provides a score based on your performance over time.
• REAL-TIME STAMINA: This endurance function tracks your performance and shows you the energy you have available during your physical activity. This way you can avoid premature exhaustion.
• RUNNING EFFICIENCY VALUES: In combination with the GARMIN Running Dynamics Pod or a GARMIN HRM-Pro heart rate chest strap, your smartwatch measures key running efficiency values such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance.
• TRAINING CONDITION: With indicators like HRV status (heart rate variability), training log and power, you get insights into your overall effort. That way you know whether you are building up your form during training, are in top form or are tired.
• ACUTE LOAD: Compare your recent training load with the optimal range to improve your fitness.
• TRAINING EFFECT: Find out how your training sessions effect your stamina, speed, and performance.
• PACEPRO™: Plan your race day strategy with GPS-based pace information for a specific course or distance.
• RECOVERY TIME: After each workout, the recovery time tells you when you are ready for your next activity. It is based on the training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activities and sleep.
• VO2 MAX: See your current fitness level and track long-term changes to set goals, evaluate your progress and more.
• PERFORMANCE CONDITION: Get pace and heart rate analysis while running. This gives you a real-time assessment of your current performance.
• SYNC TRAINING PLANS: Get your indoor and outdoor training plans from the GARMIN Connect™ app or sync seamlessly to your smartwatch from other platforms, including TrainingPeaks® and TrainerRoad.
• BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS: Add some variety to your training with activity profiles for cycling, triathlon, pool and open water swimming, track training and more. During competitions and training, you can switch between sports at the touch of a button.
• TRACK RUNNING: Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres – even on a track you have never run before. This database contains information on more than 10,000 tracks (400 metres) from all over the world.
• RACE PREDICTOR: Get information about your potential pace for a 5K, 10K, half marathon or marathon.
• TARGETED ADAPTIVE COACHING: View your entire week of daily suggested cycling workouts directly on your smartwatch. The suggested workouts adapt to match your performance and the demands of upcoming events in your GARMIN Connect™ app calendar.


Kilometre after kilometre. To your destination.

• SATIQ™ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-FREQUENCY RECEPTION: Get highly accurate track recording and optimised battery life.
• COLOUR MAPS: Whether on city streets or trails in the forest – with the integrated colour maps, you will always stay on the right track.
• NAVIGATION WITH TURN-BY-TURN DIRECTIONS: Follow a course with the help of turn guidance and you will know in advance when the next turn is coming.
• ROUND TRIP ROUTING: Enter the desired distance and receive route suggestions for circular tours. You can even use TrendLine™ to find the best routes locally.
• PIN DROP NAVIGATION: Select a point in the iOS Maps app on your iPhone® and send the position directly to your compatible Garmin smartwatch or Edge bike computer via the GARMIN Connect™ app. Get a route and navigation to the position.
• POIS ALONG THE COURSE 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: Get real-time information on current and next climbs.
• SAFETY AND TRACKING***: If you don't feel safe or your smartwatch has detected an accident, a message with your live position is sent to emergency contacts.
• COURSES: Create or find existing courses in the GARMIN Connect™ app, so you will never run out of routes. Or plan a route on other platforms such as Strava and Komoot, then automatically sync them to your smartwatch.


Be in touch with your body.

• HEART RATE MEASUREMENT*: Your heart rate is recorded regularly and helps you assess how hard you are training during activities.
• BODY BATTERY™*: Measure your body’s energy levels so that you know the best times for you to be active or to recover.
• SLEEP COACH: Get a sleep score and personalised coaching for how much sleep you need and how you can improve. Keep track of different sleep stages and naps – and see key metrics such as HRV status to better understand your health.
• NAP DETECTION: Automatically track or log your naps. See how they benefit your body and check the recommended time and duration they should be.
• PULSE OX SENSOR**: Check your blood oxygen level to assess acclimatisation to altitude or to detect breathing difficulties during sleep.
• WOMEN'S HEALTH TRACKING: Track and store information about your menstrual cycle or pregnancy for training and nutrition information.
• HEALTH SNAPSHOT™: Complete a 2-minute session to record important health statistics, then create a report to share with your doctor.
• JET LAG ADVISER: Depending on your destination, you will receive individual recommendations on sleep schedule, light exposure and exercise to minimise the effects of jet lag.


Stay connected while you are breaking records.

• GARMIN MESSENGER™ APP: Send messages directly from your wrist. With the new GARMIN messenger app on compatible GARMIN smartwatches, you can exchange customised and predefined messages with other GARMIN messenger app users. (Requires an active connection to the phone with mobile phone coverage.)
• FIND MY PHONE: Have you lost your phone during an outdoor activity with active GPS? No problem! Your compatible GARMIN smartwatch saves the last position at which your watch was connected to the phone. This allows you to navigate directly to this position and find your phone.
• MUSIC AT THE WRIST: Download songs and playlists from your Spotify®, Deezer or Amazon Music account (subscription may be required).
• GARMIN PAY™: Pay with just the flick of a wrist – no wallet required. For information on participating banks, visit garmin.com/garminpay/banks.
• SMART NOTIFICATIONS: Get emails, messages and more on your Forerunner when paired with an iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.
• SMART-TRAINER OPERATION: Operate your Tacx® smart trainer via ANT+® technology to get automatic resistance changes and training prompts when using tracks or workouts.

Note:
* Fitness tracker accuracy information at garmin.com/atdisclaimer.
** Not a medical device for diagnosis or treatment. For more information, visit garmin.com/ataccuracy.
*** Requirements and restrictions for safety and tracking features are available at Garmin.com/safety.


Watch features:
• Time/date
• GPS time sync
• Automatic daylight saving time
• Alarm clock
• Timer
• Stop watch
• Sunrise/sunset times

Health and fitness features:
• Wrist-based heart rate (constant - every second)
• Daily heart rate at rest
• Abnormal heart rate alerts (high and low)
• Respiration rate (24x7)
• PULSE OX blood oxygen saturation (spot-check and optional all-day acclimatisation and during sleep)
• Fitness age
• Body Battery™ energy monitor
• Stress level measurement
• Relaxation reminders
• Relaxation timer
• Sleep analysis (advanced)
• Sleep coach
• Nap detection
• Hydration (in GARMIN Connect™ and optionally in the Connect IQ™ widget)
• Women’s health tracking (in GARMIN Connect™ and optionally in the Connect IQ™ widget)
• Health Snapshot™

Sensors:
• GPS
• GLONASS
• Galileo
• Multifrequency reception
• SatIQ™ technology
• Heart rate measurement on the wrist (GARMIN Elevate™ technology)
• Pulse Ox
• Barometric altimeter
• Compass
• Gyroscope
• Accelerometer
• Thermometer

Daily smart functions (partially requires smartphone connection):
• Smart Notifications
• Text response / reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
• Smart notifications with image display on the smartwatch (Android™ only)
• Morning report
• Calendar
• Weather
• Real-time setting synchronisation with GARMIN Connect™ Mobile
• Energy saving mode: Customisable energy-saving clock mode
• Music features (smartphone control)
• Music playback (internal music memory)
• Find my Phone feature
• Find my Phone (during GPS activity)
• Compatible with GARMIN Messenger™ app
• Virb® remote control
• Smart trainer operation
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
• Compatible with GARMIN Connect™ Mobile
• Stocks tracker (optional Connect-IQ app)
• Garmin Pay™ (more information as well as participating banks at www.garmin.com/en-GB/garminpay/banks/ )

Activity profiles:
• Gym: strength, HIIT, cardio and cross training, (stair) stepping, indoor rowing, rope skipping
• Multisport: triathlon, swimming/running
• Health: walking, pilates, yoga
• Indoor running: treadmill running, indoor track running
• Outdoor running: running, outdoor track running, trail running, ultra running
• Outdoor recreation profiles: hiking, indoor climbing, bouldering, climbing, golfing, disc golf
• Cycling profiles: cycling, road cycling, mountain biking, gravel biking, bike commuting, bike touring, e-biking, e-mountain biking, indoor cycling, cyclocross
• Swimming profiles: indoor pool swimming, open water swimming
• On the water: stand-up paddleboarding, rowing
• Motor sports: motorcycling, overlanding, motocrossing, ATVing, snowmobiling
• Racket sports: tennis, pickleball, badminton, squash, table tennis, padel, platform tennis, racquetball
• Snow and winter: skiing, snowboarding, splitboard touring, XC classic skiing, ski touring, ice skating, snowshoeing, XC freestyle skiing
• Sports profiles: basketball, volleyball, field hockey, ice hockey, football/soccer, lacrosse, rugby, ultimate disc, cricket, softball, baseball
• In the ring: boxing, mixed martial arts
• Other: inline skating

Safety and tracking features (requires connection with smartphone):
• Incident detection during select activities
• Accident notification on the smartphone with wearables
• Emergency assistance
• Livetrack
• Messaging for spectators (with compatible smartphone)
• Group Livetrack
• Live Event enabling (only Android™)

Tactical features:
• Dual-grid coordination
• Xero™ Locations

Activity tracking features:
• Step counter
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
• Calories burned
• Floors climbed
• Distance travelled
• Intensity minutes
• TrueUp™ (switch between compatible devices and sync activity data)
• Move IQ™ (automatic activity detection)
• GARMIN Connect challenges (optional Connect IQ app)

Training, planning and analysis features:
• Customisable screens
• Downloadable training plans
• Route guidance
• Heart-rate zones
• Heart-rate alerts
• Heart-rate calories
• % HR Max
• % HRR (percent of your heart rate reserves (maximum heart rate minus resting heart rate))
• Recharge time
• Automatic maximum heart rate
• Competition calendar
• HRV status
• Heart rate transmission (sends heart rate data over ANT+™ to paired devices)
• Respiration rate during exercise (with compatible accessories)
• GPS speed and distance
• Customisable activity profiles
• Auto Pause®
• Interval training
• Optimised intervals (including open repetitions, interval data page, recovery page and automatic detection)
• Advanced workouts
• HRM running pace and distance
• Auto Lap®
• Manual lap
• Recovery timer
• Adjustable lap alarm
• Heat and high acclimatisation
• VO2Max (running)
• VO2 Max (trail running)
• Stamina data in real time
• Endurance score
• Load ratio
• Training load
• Training load focus
• Training effects (aerobic and anaerobic)
• Training effect labels (primary use)
• Adjustable alerts
• Audio prompts (optional, when connected to a compatible smartphone)
• Multisport Auto Transition
• End time
• Virtual Partner (compete against a virtual person)
• Virtual Racer™ (compete against other activities)
• Automatic multi-sport activities
• Manual multi-sport activities
• Garmin Live segments
• STRAVA functions (beacon, live segments)
• Roundtrip routing (running, cycling)
• Trendline™ routing according to popularity
• Screen and/or button lock
• Hotkeys
• Auto Scroll
• Activity history on the watch
• Physio TrueUp™ (switch between compatible devices and sync training data)
• Uniform training condition

Running features:
• GPS-based distance, time and pace
• Running efficiency
• Vertical movement and vertical ratio (the upward and downward movement of your running motion and the effort-benefit ratio of your stride length).
• Ground contact time and balance (meaning the time between your foot touching the ground and it leaving the ground again and helps you run more symmetrically, possibly requires compatible accessories)
• Step length (real time)
• Running cadence (number of steps per minute)
• Distance travelled
• Grade-adjusted pace
• Performance status (compares after 6 to 20 minutes of running your current performance to your average fitness level)
• Lactate threshold (determined by analysing your pace and heart rate , the point at which your muscles start tiring more easily, requires compatible accessories)
• PacePro™ strategies
• Run workouts
• Hill score
• Auto climb for trail running
• Runtime estimate
• Route and weather-specific run forecast
• Running sensor compatible
• Run/Walk/Stand detection

Cycling features:
• Routes (race against previous activities)
• Laps and maximum lap power (with compatible power meter)
• Compete against activities
• Time or distance alerts (when you reach a value you set, you get an alert)
• Functional threshold power (FTP) (with compatible accessories)
• Power curve and training with % FTP
• Bicycle map (routable map for bike riding)
• Advanced Cycling Dynamics
• MTB Grit and Flow (comparative values for the trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend)
• Compatible with cadence and speed sensors
• Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meter)
• Compatible with ANT+ power meters from third-party providers
• Varia™ compatible (Varia Vision™, Varia™ radar, Varia™ bike lights)

Swimming features:
• Open water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories burned)
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
• Practice logging
• Basic rest timer (up from 0)
• Recharge timer with “repeat on”
• Auto rest (only for pool swimming)
• Time and distance alerts
• Pace alert (only for pool swimming)
• Countdown start
• Swim training
• Critical swimming speed
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate measurement
• Heart rate from external heart rate chest strap (real time data during recovery phases, stats for intervals and sessions during recovery phases, automatic download of heart rate data after swimming – requires optional HRM-Pro™, HRM-Swim™ or HRM-Pro Plus™ heart rate chest strap)

Gym and fitness equipment:
• Strength workouts
• HIIT training
• Yoga workouts
• Pilates workouts
• On-screen workout animations
• On-Screen workout muscle map
• Automatic rep counting

Outdoor features:
• Point to point navigation
• Real-time track logging:
• Back to start (shortest stretch back to the starting point)
• TracBack® (along the route so far and the route back to the starting point)
• UltraTrack mode
• AroundMe mode
• POIs along the route
• Altitude graph
• Distance to goal
• Barometric trends indicator
• ClimbPro™ ascent planner
• Vertical speed
• Total ascent/descent
• Recovery timer
• Upcoming elevation profiles
• Pre-installed road and trail maps
• Supports downloadable maps
• GPS coordinates
• Sight and go
• Area calculation (over Connect IQ™)
• Hunting and fishing calendar (over Connect IQ™)
• Waypoint projection
• Solar and lunar calendar (over Connect IQ™)

Golfing features:
• Information on approx. 43,000 golf courses worldwide downloadable from the phone
• Yardage to front, middle and back of green
• Yardage to layups/doglegs
• Shot distance measurement (calculates the exact distance for shots played on the course)
• Digital scorecard
• Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
• Garmin AutoShot™ (measures the shot distance and records shots automatically so that you can analyse them in your Garmin Connect™ account afterwards)
• Automatic Courseview updates
• Green view with manual pin position
• Hazards and course targets
• PinPointer
• Handicap scoring
• Round timer/odometer
• Compatible with GARMIN Golf App
• Tournament legal


Garmin Connect™ features:
• Synchronisation (transmission of training sessions) via Bluetooth Smart via smartphone or via cable with your PC/Mac
• Save, analyse, plan and share activities in social networks
• Live Tracking feature: show your friends or family your position in real time
• Grouptrack: track current position of your group members during your activity
• Upload training data
• Training plans:
• Map view
• Daily overview
• Diagram overviews
• Online challenges
• Comment the activities of other users

Note:
Smartphone compatibility of the GARMIN Connect™ app (system requirements): http://www.garmin.com/en-GB/ble

GARMIN Connect IQ™ features:
• Create individual display designs, integration of smartphone photos as display background
• Download apps and widgets for additional features
• Connect IQ™ Shop on the device
• Customise data fields


Technical details:
• Compatible with ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart (BLE) sensors
• Interfaces: ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart, WLAN
• Lithium-ion battery
• Display size: 1.3" (33 mm)
• Transflective MIP colour display (memory-in-pixel)
• Resolution: 260 × 260 pixels
• Control: touchscreen and five buttons
• Waterproof rating: swimming, 5 ATM (corresponds to a test pressure approx. 50 metres under water)
• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX (Power Glass™ with solar charging lens)
• Material bezel: fibre-reinforced polymer
• Case material: fibre-reinforced polymer
• Dimensions: approx. 46.5 × 46.5 × 14.4 mm
• Strap material: silicone (22 mm wide; quick-change system; fits wrists with a circumference of 130 to 220 mm)
• Memory/History: 32 GB
• Weight: approx. 53 g

Battery life:
• Smartwatch mode: up to 15 days/20 days with solar charging*
• GPS mode without music: up to 42 hours/49 hours with solar charging**
• GNSS mode with all systems, multiband, music: up to 8.5 hours
• GNSS mode with all systems and multiband, but without music: up to 20 hours/22 hours with solar charging**
• UltraTrac mode: up to 80 hours/110 hours with solar charging**

* Indications of battery life with solar charging assume watch is worn all day with 3 hours spent outside at 50,000 lux (a clear sunny day reaches up to 100,000 lux, a cloudy sky approx. 20,000 lux).
** The indications assume that the watch is worn outside at 50,000 lux (a clear sunny day reaches up to 100,000 lux, a cloudy sky approx. 20,000 lux).


In the box:
• 1 GARMIN Forerunner 955 Solar GPS multisport watch
• 1 USB charging/data cable (USB power adapter NOT included)
• 1 quick start manual