
2025 Garmin Forerunner® 945
GarminModel/Color | Bundle | LTE |
Black Watch Only | No | Yes |
Blue Bundle | Yes | No |
DESIGNED FOR THE DRIVEN
We made this watch for you — the up-at-dawn runners and the conditioned-for-pain triathletes. While you chase your next victory, make sure you’ve got the right tool for the job.
In the Box
Watch Only
- Forerunner 945 GPS watch
- Charging cable
- Documentation
Tri-bundle
- Forerunner 945 GPS watch
- 1 extra set bands (black)
- HRM-Tri™ monitor
- HRM-Swim™ monitor
- Quick release kit
- Charging Cable
- Documentation
You Can’T Run without the Right Rhythm. Sync Your Favorite Music to Your Watch.
Outlast Your Longest Race with Up to 10 Hours Of Battery Life In Gps Mode with Music.
You Want Numbers, We Got Numbers. Measure More Performance Metrics Than Ever.
No Cash? It’S Cool. Use Garmin Pay™ Contactless Payments 1 .
All the Directions, None Of the Paper. Full-Color Onboard Maps Guide You On Your Run.
Have No Fear. Safety and Tracking Features 2 Help You Feel Secure While You Run.
EXTENDED BATTERY LIFE
Get up to 2 weeks of battery life in smartwatch mode and 10 hours in GPS mode with music. Use UltraTrac™ mode to make sure you’ve got enough juice to outlast your longest race.
ELITE RUNNING WATCH DESIGN
When every bit of weight makes a difference, fight for the finish line with a lightweight smartwatch that doesn’t bulk up your wrist.
MARATHON-READY MATERIALS
Forerunner 945 is miles ahead of the competition with a high-performance silicone band and an ultra-durable Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX lens.
GARMIN COACH
These adaptive training plansfeature guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals. Workouts sync right to your watch.
BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
Switch up your workout routine with activity profiles for cycling, pool and open-water swimming, track running, elliptical, stair-stepper and more.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
Get heart rate data 3along with alerts if your heart rate stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities, even underwater.
MULTI-GNSS
Access multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone.
RUNNING DYNAMICS
When used with a compatible accessory 4, Forerunner 945 measures crucial running metricssuch as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance and more.
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, analyze pace, heart rate and heart rate variability for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.
TRAINING STATUS
This metricevaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you’re training productively, peaking or overreaching.
TRAINING EFFECT
See how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effectfeedback.
TRAINING LOAD
This statmeasures your exercise volume from the last 7 days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness and recent training history.
DAILY WORKOUT SUGGESTIONS
For training guidance that takes you and your fitness level into account, get daily run and ride recommendationsbased on your current training load and training status.
RECOVERY TIME
After each workout, the built-in recovery time advisorlets you know how long to rest before another big effort. It even accounts for all-day stress, sleep and daily activity outside of workouts.
INTENSITY MINUTES
With improvements based on guidance from the CDCand WHO, now you can understand when you earned daily intensity minutes and during what activity.
FULL-COLOR MAPPING
Whether you’re running the city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 945 provides built-in mappingto help keep you on track.
CLIMBPRO FEATURE
Use ClimbProascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.
TURN-BY-TURN NAVIGATION
Follow a route or course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.
ROUND-TRIP ROUTING
Enter a distance you want to travel, and get suggested routesthat will bring you back to your starting point. Trendline™ popularity routinghelps you find the best local paths.
PULSE OX SENSOR
This wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor 5monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING
Track your body’s energy levelsso you can find the best times for activity and rest.
SLEEP SCORE AND ADVANCED SLEEP MONITORING
Get a score for your sleep’s quality and insights on how you can do better. Even keep track of the different sleep stages as well as heart rate, stress, Pulse Ox 5and respiration.
WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING
Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycleor pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more. Even get details on your wrist with the Menstrual Cycle Tracking widgetand Pregnancy Tracking app.
MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST
Download up to 500 songs plus playlists from your Spotify®, Deezer or Amazon music accounts (subscription may be required).
GARMIN PAY PAYMENT SOLUTION
Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with the Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch, when paired with a compatible smartphone
LIVETRACK FEATURE
Use LiveTrack to let friends and family follow your real-time location 6and even view your entire preplanned course. Rest assured that your loved ones know exactly where you’re running or riding.
SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features 2send your location to emergency contacts. Incident detection is enabled by default for select activity profiles only.
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.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store.
SYNC WITH GARMIN CONNECT™
Upload your activities to the Garmin Connect appto interact with a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete — and even share their triumphs via social media.
Click for Important Safety and Product Information
1View current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information
2When paired with a compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking features requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
3Activity tracking accuracy
4When used with Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Run™ or HRM-Tri™ monitors (sold separately)
5This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
6When paired with your compatible smartphone
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- Weight:
- 50 g
- Battery Life:
- Smartwatch Mode: Up to 2 weeks GPS mode with music: Up to 10 hours GPS mode without music: Up to 36 hours
- Garmin Pay™:
- ✔
- Display Size:
- 1.2 (30.4 mm) diameter"
- Display Resolution:
- 240 x 240 pixels
- Color Display:
- ✔
- GPS:
- ✔
- Glonass:
- ✔
- Galileo:
- ✔
- Barometric Altimeter:
- ✔
- Gyroscope:
- ✔
- Sensors-Accelerometer:
- ✔
- Connectivity:
- Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
- Connect Iq™(DownloadaBLE Watch Faces, Data Fields And Apps):
- ✔
- Smart Notifications:
- ✔
- Text Response/Reject Phone Call With Text (Android™Only):
- ✔
- Weather Forecasts:
- ✔
- Controls Smartphone Music:
- ✔
- Virb® Remote:
- ✔
- Charging Method:
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Sleep Score And Insights:
- ✔
- Battery Life (Smartwatch Mode):
- Up to 2 weeks
- Built-In Mapping:
- ✔
- Pulse OX Blood Oxygen:
- yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
- Music Storage:
- ✔
- Training Status:
- ✔
- What You'll Love-Display Type:
- Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
- What You'll Love-Water Rating:
- 5 ATM
- Strap Material:
- silicone
- Lens Material:
- Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 DX
- Bezel Material:
- fiber-reinforced polymer
- Quickfit® Watch Band Compatible:
- yes (22 mm compatible)
- Physical Size:
- 47 x 47 x 13.7 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm
- Memory/History:
- 16 GB
- Time/Date:
- ✔
- GPS Time Sync:
- ✔
- Automatic Daylight Saving Time:
- ✔
- Alarm Clock:
- ✔
- Timer:
- ✔
- Stopwatch:
- ✔
- Sunrise/Sunset Times:
- ✔
- Wrist-Based Heart Rate (Constant, Every Second):
- ✔
- Resting Heart Rate:
- ✔
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts:
- yes (high and low)
- Respiration Rate:
- ✔
- Fitness Age:
- yes (in app)
- Body Battery™Energy Monitor:
- ✔
- All-Day Stress:
- ✔
- Relaxation Breathing Timer:
- ✔
- Sleep:
- yes (advanced)
- Hydration:
- yes (in Garmin Connect™and optional Connect IQ™widget)
- Women'S Health:
- yes (in Garmin Connect™and optional Connect IQ™widget)
- Garmin Elevate™Wrist Heart Rate Monitor:
- ✔
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor:
- ✔
- Compass:
- ✔
- Thermometer:
- ✔
- Calendar:
- ✔
- Find My Phone:
- ✔
- Find My Watch:
- ✔
- Plays And Controls Watch Music:
- ✔