
2025 Garmin Forerunner® 955 Solar
GarminOUTSHINE THE COMPETITION
Pushing toward the podium? Get this lightweight smartwatch on your wrist. Train your best, perform your best, and outlast the pack with a Power Glass™ solar charging lens to extend battery life.
1Assumes all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions
2Assumes continuous use for entire period in 50,000 lux conditions
3When paired with a compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
4Activity tracking accuracy
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.
6View current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information
TrainingPeaks is a registered trademark of Peaksware, LLC. SPOTIFY and the Spotify logo are among the registered trademarks of Spotify AB. Amazon Music and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Apple is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Starbucks and the Starbucks logo are registered trademarks of Starbucks Corporation.
Engineering enhancements are ongoing and may not be reflected in the pictures, videos and specifications.
In the Box
- Forerunner 955 multisport watch
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation
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 Undertrainingor Overdoing It, with An Improved Training Status Feature.
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 variabilitywhile 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 recommendationsvary 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 plansfor 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 metricssuch as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER
See how much poweryou’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 effectfeedback.
PACEPRO ™ FEATURE
The PaceProfeature 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-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 planneron 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 1send 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 2with 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 2.
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 2.
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 3monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.
WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING
Use the Garmin Connect appto track your menstrual cycleor 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 2, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox 3, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats to share via the Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone.
Click for Important Safety and Product Information
1Assumes all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions
2Assumes continuous use for entire period in 50,000 lux conditions
3When paired with a compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
4Activity tracking accuracy
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.
6View current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information
TrainingPeaks is a registered trademark of Peaksware, LLC. SPOTIFY and the Spotify logo are among the registered trademarks of Spotify AB. Amazon Music and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Apple is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Starbucks and the Starbucks logo are registered trademarks of Starbucks Corporation.
Engineering enhancements are ongoing and may not be reflected in the pictures, videos and specifications.
- Weight:
- 52 g
- 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 See Detail
- Garmin Pay™:
- ✔
- Display Size:
- 1.3 (33 mm) diameter"
- Display Resolution:
- 260 x 260 pixels
- Color Display:
- ✔
- GPS:
- ✔
- Glonass:
- ✔
- Galileo:
- ✔
- Barometric Altimeter:
- ✔
- Gyroscope:
- ✔
- Charging Method:
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Sleep Score And Insights:
- ✔
- Battery Life (Smartwatch Mode):
- Up to 15 days
- Built-In Mapping:
- ✔
- Pulse OX Blood Oxygen:
- yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
- Multi-Band GPS:
- ✔
- Music Storage:
- ✔
- Training Readiness:
- ✔
- Training Status:
- yes (improved)
- What You'll Love-Display Type:
- Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
- What You'll Love-Touchscreen:
- ✔
- 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:
- 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4 (mm) Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm
- Large Font Option:
- ✔
- Memory/History:
- 32 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:
- ✔
- Body Battery™Energy Monitor:
- ✔
- All-Day Stress:
- ✔
- Relaxation Breathing Timer:
- ✔
- Sleep:
- yes (advanced)
- Sleep Coach:
- ✔
- Breathing Variations:
- ✔
- Nap Detection:
- ✔
- Hydration:
- yes (in Garmin Connect™and optional Connect IQ™widget)
- Women'S Health:
- yes (in Garmin Connect™and optional Connect IQ™widget)
- Health Snapshot:
- ✔
- Satiq™Technology:
- ✔
- Garmin Elevate™Wrist Heart Rate Monitor:
- ✔
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor:
- ✔
- Relaxation Reminders:
- ✔
- Meditation:
- ✔
- QZSS:
- ✔
- Beidou:
- ✔
- Compass:
- ✔