Garmin Forerunner 955 & 955 Solar

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.
• Swipe through stats and maps with a new, responsive touchscreen.
• Confidently run any route using full-color, built-in maps and multi-band GPS.
• 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.

SOLAR

• Get up to 20 days of battery life in smartwatch mode for a full picture of your health — from sleep to training.
• Harness the power of the sun, and get up to 49 hours of battery life in GPS mode with solar charging.

Specifications

Bezel Material: Fiber-reinforced polymer
Physical Size: 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4 (mm) Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm
Weight: 53 g
Display Size: 1.3" (33 mm) diameter
Display Resolution: 260 x 260 pixels

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.

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.

GARMIN COACH
Train for an event, achieve a milestone, or improve your fitness with Garmin Coach training plans for running, cycling or strength. Just set it up in the Garmin Connect™ app, then let Garmin Coach create personalized daily workouts to help you reach your goals. This includes Garmin Run and Cycling Coach, which creates training plans that adapt based on your performance, recovery and health metrics. If you’re trying to build muscle or simply increase your fitness level, the strength training plans are tailored to help you optimize your body’s performance and endurance.

TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT 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 multisport profiles.

WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS
This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory required.

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 provides a score based on your performance over time.

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.

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.

GRADE-ADJUSTED PACE
Don’t run out of steam before the activity is over. Understand how to adjust your pace over varying terrain to perform according to your plan.

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.

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.

TRACK RUNNING
Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters – even on a track you’ve never run before with a database with more than 10,000 tracks (400 meters) from all over the world.

TARGETED ADAPTIVE COACHING FOR CYCLING
View your entire week of daily suggested cycling workouts directly on your smartwatch — which adapt to match your performance and the demands of upcoming events in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.

SATIQ™ TECHNOLOGY
Multi-band GNSS with SatIQ technology ensures the best positioning accuracy in any environment while also optimizing the device’s battery life.

FULL-COLOUR MAPPING
Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 955 provides, full-colour, 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 features1 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.

GARMIN TRAILS
Access thousands of trails, and send them directly to your compatible device for offline use with a subscription to Garmin Connect+ in the Garmin Connect™ app or to Outdoor Maps+ in the Garmin Explore™ app. Available in select areas. Learn more.

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
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.

SLEEP COACH
Get a sleep score and personalized 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 to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.

PULSE OX SENSOR
This wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.

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

GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payments4 through participating providers.

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.

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.

In The Box

• Forerunner 955 Multisport watch
• Charging/data cable
• Documentation

SKUs
010-02638-10 (Black)
010-02638-11 (Whitestone)
010-02638-00 (Black - Solar)
010-02638-01 (Whitestone - Solar)