Garmin Forerunner 955
Pushing toward the podium? Get this lightweight smartwatch on your wrist. Train your best, perform your best, and
put yourself in the running at your next race.
Get up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch mode for a full picture of your health — from sleep to training.
Confidently run any route using full-color, built-in maps and multi-band GPS.
Swipe through stats and maps with a new, responsive touchscreen.
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.
Know if you're undertraining or overdoing it, with an improved training status feature.
Garmin Forerunner 955 Specs
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LENS MATERIAL: Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
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BEZEL MATERIAL: fiber-reinforced polymer
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STRAP MATERIAL: silicone
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PHYSICAL SIZE: 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4 (mm) Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm
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DISPLAY SIZE: 1.3" (33 mm) diameter
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DISPLAY TYPE: sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
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WEIGHT: 52 g
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BATTERY LIFE: Smartwatch mode: Up to 15 days. GPS-only mode without music: Up to 42 hours.
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. Ultratrac mode: Up to 80 hours
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SOLAR 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**. See Details: *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
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MEMORY/HISTORY: 32 GB
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WATER RATING: 5 ATM
Garmin Forerunner 955 Features
EXTENDED BATTERY LIFE
Get up to 15 days of battery life in smartwatch mode. In GPS mode, get up to 42 hours. And in UltraTrac™ mode, go
even longer with up to 80 hours.
TOUCHSCREEN AND 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.
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 customize 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.
RACE WIDGET
Get ready for your next race with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time
predictions based on course details, weather and performance.
DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS
View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and
recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.
GARMIN COACH
Free adaptive training plans include 5K, 10K and half-marathon programs, featuring guidance from expert coaches that
adapt to you and your goals.
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™ monitor.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
The watch constantly samples your heart rate 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
Track your body’s energy levels so you can find the best times for activity and rest.
IMPROVED SLEEP MONITORING AND SLEEP SCORE
Understand how your body is recovering — and get ready for training — with our improved sleep monitoring feature.
After waking up, you’ll receive a sleep score, as well as breakdown of your sleep stages, Pulse Ox and respiration,
alongside detailed insights for improved sleep quality.
PULSE OX SENSOR
This wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and
altitude acclimation.
REAL-TIME STAMINA
Use this data to track and manage your exertion — and help avoid overexerting at the start of your run or bike ride.
RUNNING DYNAMICS
When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro 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 help improve your fitness and see your
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
smartwatch from other platforms, including TrainingPeaks® and more.
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 rate, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox, respiration and
stress. Then generate a report with those stats to share via the Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone.
MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST
Download up to 2,000 songs plus playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon music accounts (subscription may be
required).
GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payments through participating providers.
BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
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.
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.
MULTI-BAND SUPPORT
Access multiple global navigation satellite systems, and get access to multiple frequencies sent by navigation
satellites for improved accuracy in areas where GNSS signals are reflected, weak or typically don't penetrate —
giving you superior accuracy for how far and how fast you’ve run — even in challenging environments.
FULL-COLOR MAPPING
Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 955 provides, full-color,
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 AND TRACKING FEATURES
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, Assistance and incident detection features
send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is enabled by default for select activity profiles
only.
COURSES
Create or find existing courses in our 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.
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 — all in one free, zero-subscription app.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps or widgets from the Connect IQ Store app downloaded on
your compatible smartphone.
