WHAT IF YOUR NEXT RACE WAS THE PERFORMANCE OF A LIFETIME? AND GARMIN COACH TRAINING PLANS HELPED YOU DO SOMETHING YOU’VE NEVER DONE? WITH THE FORERUNNER 265 SMARTWATCH, YOU’LL SEE EVERY INSIGHT LIT UP ON A COLORFUL AMOLED TOUCHSCREEN DISPLAY. GET READY TO BE BETTER FOR IT.

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KNOW WHERE YOU STAND

WITH MORNING REPORT

RUN. RECOVER. REPEAT.

WITH UP TO 13 DAYS OF BATTERY LIFE IN SMARTWATCH MODE

COMES IN TWO SIZES

TO FIT EVERY WRIST

PLAN YOUR STRATEGY

WITH GARMIN COACH, PERSONALIZED DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS, TRAINING READINESS SCORE AND MORE


1.3” COLORFUL AMOLED DISPLAY

UP TO 20 HOURS OF BATTERY LIFE IN GPS MODE

ADVANCED TRAINING METRICS AND RECOVERY INSIGHTS

SATIQ™ AND MULTI-BAND GPS

TOUCHSCREEN AND BUTTONS

MUSIC ON YOUR WRIST

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE

MORNING REPORT

Receive an overview of your sleep1 and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see.

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.

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.

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.

TRAINING STATUS

Using 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.

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.

LIGHT, BRIGHT AND MADE FOR ANY DISTANCE

PLAN


RECOVERY TIME

Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.

COURSES

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favorite third party platforms.

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 health1.

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 energy1.

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.

BREATHING VARIATIONS

For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep2. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.

RACE PREDICTOR

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.

PREPARE


WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS

This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

The watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities1.

ACUTE LOAD

Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

TRAINING EFFECT

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.

PERFORMANCE CONDITION

While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

VO2 MAX

See your current fitness level and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.

INTENSITY MINUTES

Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes.

HEALTH SNAPSHOT

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

PULSE OX SENSOR

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep3.

AUDIO PROMPTS

Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts.

CROSS TRAINING

Forerunner 265 is preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.

PERFORM


WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER

See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

SATIQ™ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-BAND GPS

Get superior positioning accuracy and optimized battery life.

PACEPRO™ FEATURE

Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS

Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

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.

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.

CONNECT


MUSIC

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

SAFETY AND TRACKING

If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location4. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.

GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS

Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.

LIVETRACK

Friends and family can follow your real-time location4 and view preplanned courses.

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.

GARMIN CONNECT APP

See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.

CONNECT IQ™ STORE

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.

GOOGLE MAPS™ APP

Know where to go when walking, running or cycling. Enter your destination in Google Maps on your Android™ smartphone, then follow turn-by-turn directions on your wrist.

GARMIN SHARE

Easily follow the same course or workout with your friends. Share saved locations, courses and workouts with other nearby Garmin Share compatible devices.

What You’ll Love
Sleep score and insightsyes
Battery life (smartwatch mode)Up to 13 days
Pulse Ox blood oxygenyes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
Garmin Pay™yes
Multi-band GPSyes
Music storageyes
Training readinessyes
Training statusyes (improved)
Display typeAMOLED (optional always-on mode)
Touchscreenyes
Water rating5 ATM
General
Strap materialsilicone
Lens MaterialCorning® Gorilla® Glass 3
Bezel Materialfiber-reinforced polymer
Quick Release bandsyes (22 mm, Industry standard)
Physical size46.1 x 46.1 x 12.9 (mm)

Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-205 mm

Weight47 g
Display Size1.3″ (32.5 mm) diameter
Display resolution416 x 416 pixels
Color displayyes
Large font optionyes
Battery typeLithium ion
Battery lifeSmartwatch mode: Up to 13 days
GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 20 hours
SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 16 hours
All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 14 hours
GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours
SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 6.5 hours
All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 6 hours
See Details
Charging methodGarmin proprietary plug charger
Memory/History8 GB
Clock Features
Time/dateyes
GPS Time Syncyes
Automatic daylight saving timeyes
Alarm clockyes
Timeryes
Stopwatchyes
Sunrise/sunset timesyes
Health & Wellness Monitoring
Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)yes
Resting heart rateyes
Abnormal heart rate alertsyes (high and low)
Respiration rateyes
Fitness ageyes
Body Battery™ energy monitoryes
All-day stressyes
Relaxation remindersyes
Relaxation breathing timeryes
Meditationyes
Breathworkyes
Sleepyes (advanced)
Sleep coachyes
Breathing variationsyes
Nap detectionyes
Hydrationyes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
Women’s healthyes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
Health snapshotyes
Jet lag adviseryes
Sensors
GPSyes
GLONASSyes
Galileoyes
QZSSyes
BeiDouyes
SatIQ™ Technologyyes
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitoryes
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitoryes
Barometric altimeteryes
Compassyes
Gyroscopeyes
Accelerometeryes
Thermometeryes
Ambient light sensoryes
Daily Smart Features
ConnectivityBluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps)yes
On-device Connect IQ™ Storeyes
Smart Notificationsyes
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)yes
View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only)yes
Morning reportyes
Calendaryes
Weather forecastsyes
Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobileyes
Battery saver (customizable low power watch)yes
Controls smartphone musicyes
Plays and controls watch musicyes
Find My Phoneyes
Find My Watchyes
Find My Phone during GPS activityyes
Compatible with Garmin Messenger appyes
VIRB® Remoteyes
Smart trainer controlyes
Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobileyes
Smartphone compatibilityiPhone®, Android™
Stocksyes (optional Connect IQ app)
Red shift modeyes
Garmin Shareyes
Passcodeyes
Workout and Training Plans
Daily Suggested Workout – Running (Pace and Heart Rate Based)yes
Daily Suggested Workout – Cycling (Pace and Heart Rate Based)yes
Garmin Running Coachyes
Garmin Running Coach Expertsyes
Garmin Cycling Coachyes
Garmin Coach – Prebuilt Cycling Plansyes
Garmin Coach – Strengthyes
Cardio workoutsyes
Strength workoutsyes
HIIT workoutsyes
Yoga workoutsyes
Pilates workoutsyes
On-screen workout animationsyes
On-screen workout muscle mapsyes
Activity Profiles
GymStrength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Jump Roping
MultisportTriathlon
WellnessWalking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking
Indoor runningTreadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running
Outdoor runningRunning, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running
Outdoor recreationHiking, Bouldering, Archery
CyclingBiking, Mountain Biking, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking
SwimPool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
On the WaterStand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing
Racket sportsTennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
Snow & winterSkiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing
Team sportsBasketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
In the ringBoxing, Mixed Martial Arts
Other activity profilesInline skating
Safety and Tracking Features
Incident Detection during select activitiesyes
Incident detection alert on phone for wearablesyes
Assistanceyes
Live Event SharingAndroid™ Only
Activity Tracking Features
Step counteryes
Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity)yes
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)yes
Calories burnedyes
Floors climbedyes
Distance traveledyes
Intensity minutesyes
TrueUp™yes
Move IQ™yes
Garmin Connect™ Challenges appyes (optional Connect IQ app)
Automatic rep countingyes
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
Customizable data pagesyes
Downloadable training plansyes
Course guidanceyes
HR zonesyes
HR alertsyes
HR caloriesyes
% HR maxyes
% HRRyes
Recovery timeyes
Auto max HRyes
Race glance/widgetyes
HRV statusyes
HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices)yes
Respiration rate (during exercise)yes (with compatible accessory)
GPS speed and distanceyes
Customizable activity profilesyes
Auto Pause® automatic timer haltyes
Interval trainingyes
Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection)yes
Advanced workoutsyes
HRM running pace and distanceyes
Auto Lap® interval tracking featureyes
Manual lapyes
Rest timeryes
Configurable lap alertsyes
VO2 Max (Run)yes
VO2 Max (Trail Run)yes
Load ratioyes
Training loadyes
Training load focusyes
Training effectyes
Training effect (anaerobic)yes
Primary benefit (Training Effect labels)yes
Improved recovery timeyes
Custom alertsyes
Voice alertsyes
Multisport auto transitionyes
Finish timeyes
Virtual Partneryes
Race an Activityyes
Manual multisport activitiesyes
Touch and/or button lockyes
Shortcutsyes
Auto scrollyes
Activity history on watchyes
Physio TrueUpyes
Unified training statusyes
Running Features
GPS-based distance, time and paceyes
Running dynamicsyes
Vertical oscillation and ratioyes
Ground contact time and balanceyes (with compatible accessory)
Stride length (real time)yes
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)yes
Running poweryes
Grade-adjusted paceyes
Performance conditionyes
Lactate thresholdyes
PacePro™ Pacing Strategiesyes
Run workoutsyes
Trail run auto climbyes
Race predictoryes
Course- and weather-specific race predictoryes
Foot pod capableyes
Run/Walk/Stand detectionyes
Outdoor Recreation
Point-to-point navigationyes
Bread crumb trail in real timeyes
Back to startyes
TracBack®yes
UltraTrac modeyes
Up Aheadyes
Elevation profileyes
Distance to destinationyes
Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alertyes
Vertical speedyes
Total ascent/descentyes
Rest Timer (Ultra Run only)yes
Auto restyes
Future elevation plotyes
Area calculationyes (via Connect IQ™)
Fish forecastyes (via Connect IQ™)
Projected waypointyes
Sun and moon informationyes
Cycling Features
Coursesyes
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)yes
Race an activityyes
Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)yes
Power curve and % FTP workoutsyes
Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters)yes
Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display)yes
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)yes
Compatible with Varia™ lightsyes
Compatible with Varia headlight camerayes
Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)yes
Power meter compatibleyes
Swimming Features
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)yes
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)yes
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)yes
Drill logging (pool swim only)yes
Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)yes
“Repeat on” rest timer (pool swim only)yes
Auto rest (pool swim only)yes
Time and distance alertsyes
Time and distance alertsyes
Pacing alerts (pool swim only)yes
Countdown start (pool swim only)yes
Pool swim workoutsyes
Critical swim speedyes
Underwater wrist-based heart rateyes
Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim)yes (with HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro, HRM-Pro Plus or HRM 600)
  • Forerunner 265 GPS running watch
  • USB-C charging/data cable
  • Documentation
WeightN/A
Color

Black Bezel with Whitestone Case and Whitestone/Tidal Blue Silicone Band, Black Bezel with Aqua Case and Aqua/Black Silicone Band, Black Bezel and Case with Black/Powder Gray Silicone Band

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