Description
- 1.3” colorful amoled display with touchscreen and buttons
- Up to 20 hours of battery life in GPS mode
- SatIQ™, multi-band GPS, advanced training metrics and recovery insights with music on your wrist
- Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-205 mm
- Forerunner 265 GPS running watch comes with a USB-C charging/data cable and documentation
- Morning Report: Receive an overview of your sleep and training outlook as soon as you wake up
- Race Widget: Get ready for your next race with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions
- Daily Suggested Workouts: Get workouts made for you, made to match your performance and recovery and take into account the races coming up
- Training Readiness: Get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more
- Training Status: 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
- 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
- Courses: Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favorite third party platforms
- Sleep Monitoring & Sleep Score: Understand how your body’s recovering with sleep score, breakdown of your sleep stages and detailed insights
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring: Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest
- 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
- 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 activities
- 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
- 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 asleep
- 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
- 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
- Triathlon and Multisport Profiles: Switch between sports with one press by using built-in profiles, or you can create your own
- Music: Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening
- Safety and Tracking: If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses an incident occurred, your watch will send a message with your live location
- 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 location and view preplanned courses
- Garmin Connect App: See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more — in this free, zero-subscription app
- Connect IQ™ Store: Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch
- Smartwatch mode: Up to 13 days of battery
- GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 20 hours of battery
- SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 16 hours of battery
- Life All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 14 hours of battery
- Life GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours of battery
- SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 6.5 hours of battery
- All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 6 hours of battery
- Lens Material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass
- Bezel Material: Fiber-reinforced polymer
- Quick Release Bands: Yes (22 mm, industry standard)
- Strap Material: Silicone
- Physical Size: 46.1 x 46.1 x 12.9 (mm)
- Water Rating: 5 ATM
- Memory/History: 8 GB
- Weight: 47 g
Product Reviews
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Most Liked Positive Review
By far the best Forerunner
I could decide between 265S & 265 after watching 4 hours worth of reviews I went for the small but returned it as soon as I saw it & opted for 265 I'm a woman with a 16" wrist & it looks ok ! I did go for a butterfly watch face for work. Firstly wow in brilliant sunshine I can read everything on my...
Most Liked Negative Review
Safety features setup issues
Tried to set up safety features on my pixel 6a and when that failed, tried to set it up on my Samsung. That failed as well. The issue is in the "Enter Your Information" page in the Connect app. Garmin populates the name, city, and state and there is no box for a phone number anywhere. Click on the N...
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We exchanged for a different color, but great product
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Use for every day
Great features, but...
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Does not support Garmin Pay for major credit cards!
Love the screen and all the features!
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Tried a couple other watches and everytime I kept coming back to this one. Not only is the screen beautiful but all the features are very worthwhile. Have really appreciated my morning reports as he allows me to understand how my body recovers and what to expect for the day. Also have liked the amount of customization the Home Screen has. Would recommend to others!
Great watch - but scratched SUPER easily
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I love the watch and the features that come come with it. But be aware that it scratches very easily. Already have a noticeable scratch after two weeks of regular usage.
Very useful
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Still getting used to it. Very accurate and full of different functionalities but navigating through settings is haunting and sometimes overwhelming (I often find my self looking in youtube how to access or change some setting). Nevertheless, is the best gadget to really feel I am getting somewhere with running.
Great Watch
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I bought this a month ago and I'm thoroughly enjoying it! It's such a nice relief to have a reliable watch after having a Fitbit. I love the stats that it gives me, especially since I exercise a lot. It makes me want to challenge myself.
Fav watch!
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I bought this watch around one month ago, and super happy with all its features!
Excellent Features, Easy to use
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I was trying to decide between the Forerunner 265 and the Apple Watch. Definitely the correct choice for a person that wants to track all facets of their fitness and healthspan journey
Excellent Runner's Watch
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Couldn't be happier with this purchase. I had been using an Apple Watch 7 for everyday use and a Forerunner 35 for runs. The Apple Watch battery life became an issue and I wanted a running watch that had more features than the 35. After a ton of research I landed on the 265. It does everything my Apple Watch did (except play Apple Music) and the health and training features are fantastic. Oh, and the battery life is great too. I get 5-6 days on a single charge with the always in display and 12-14 without that on. This includes using it for about 30 minutes/day with GPS. The GPS connection is way faster than my old 35 and I haven't had any delays so far. Would definitely recommend
My first Garmin watch
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I purchased this watch about a month ago and I'm happy I did. I was a prior Apple Watch user, but it was on its last leg. I wanted to take my runs more serious so I started to do my research. After some time reading and watching reviews, I decided the Garmin FR265 was the best fit for me. Battery life is crazy good! I would consider myself an average user of the watch and I charge it once a week (usually charge at 9-12%, I'm sure I can squeeze out a few more days if I wanted too)