Garmin Forerunner 265

Train Brilliantly

With one of the brightest running smartwatches!

What if your next race was the performance of a lifetime? And personalised daily suggested workouts helped you do something you've never done? Withe the Forerunner 265 running smartwatch you will see every insight light up on a bright and colourful AMOLED touchscreen display. Get ready to be better for it!

Morning Report

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

Race Widget

Get ready for your next race with training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on course details, weather and performance.

Daily Suggested Workouts

Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery and take into account the races coming up in your Garmin Connect calendar.

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.

Plan

Garmin Coach

Free adaptive 5K, 10K and half marathon training plans from expert coaches

Recovery Time

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

Sleep Monitoring and Sleep Score

Understand how your body’s recovering with sleep score, breakdown of your sleep stages and detailed insights for improved sleep quality.

Body Battery and Energy Monitoring

Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest.

Prepare

Wrist-Based Heart Rate

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

Wrist-Based Running Dynamics

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

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.

Health Snapshot

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

Cross Training

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

Perform

SATIQ™ Technology And Multi-Band GPS

Get superior positioning accuracy and optimised battery life.

Rack Running

Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters.

Triathlon And Multipsort Profiles

Switch between sports with one press by using built-in profiles, or you can create your own.

Physical And Performance

• Display Size 1.3″ (32.5 mm) diameter
• Display Type AMOLED; optional always-on mode
• Battery life
  • Smartwatch 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
• Display Resolution 416 x 416 pixels
• Weight 47 g

Features

• Multi-frequency Positioning
• Touch and/or button lock
• Plays and controls watch music
• Ground contact time and balance
• Training load focus
• Vertical speed
• Customisable screen(s)
• Configurable lap alerts
• Vertical oscillation and ratio
• UltraTrac mode
• Find my phone
• Stride length (real time)
• Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)
• Advanced workouts
• Interval training
• Breadcrumb trail in real time
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
• Connect IQ^™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
• Multi-sport
• PacePro™ Pacing Strategies
• Running dynamics
• Accelerometer
• Cardio workouts
• Performance condition
• Run/Walk/Stand detection
• Music storage
• Barometric altimeter
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate
• Available gym activity profiles: Strength, HIIT, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates, Yoga, Breathwork
• Available run profiles: Running, Outdoor Track Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running, Virtual Running, Ultra Running
• Available swim profiles: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running