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...
Reviewed by 149 customers
Awesome running watch!!!
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I've had other smart watches - the Forerunner 265 is BY FAR the best watch for runners! I only wish I'd listened to others and made the switch sooner. The data and tools it provides to help track overall fitness, give suggested workouts (based on upcoming races), keep you on pace, track sleep, etc. is awesome. The user interface takes a little getting used to - but after a few days, it's now easy to get around and to see the data/info I want/need. The display is bright and easy to read - and a perfect size to clearly show everything you want to see in a clean format. I also enjoy the morning report! The Garmin Connect app is easy to use and provides a great summary of everything I want to know to help improve my running. Very happy I made the switch!
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Great product. However there is no option for just "Walking".
Perfect with one exception
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This watch really is the best watch specifically for runners. I love being able to see my live place, and the recovery suggestions are helpful. My one complaint is that the watch's calorie counts for anything other than exercise and rest are way off. I felt like my Apple Watch was great at calculating my non-exercise calorie burn, based on me eating the calories it said I burned and maintaining my weight easily. Unless I workout for over an hour, the FR 265 thinks I burn very, very few calories a day, even if I hit 10,000+ steps and never sit down for a break.
Great Features
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Love this watch has hundreds of features. Heart rate works well and accurate. Having a hard time figuring out how to customize all the settings but you-tube videos help with it. Colors and display are easy to read and bright. Great watch so far hope it lasts.
Great overall
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It's a great watch that covers everything like the big boys. I wish it had an easier band-changing option like fenix.
Great fitness watch
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This is my first fitness watch. I had been using Strava on my phone for a few years to track my running. I love the 265 easy to read faces especially while running and I don't have to carry a phone anymore. The sleep monitoring helps me see patterns and how to improve. Not all controls or functions on the watch are intuitive. There have been a few things or functions I've had to lookup online to understand. Overall I'm very pleased. I debated between the 265s and 265. Very glad I went with the 265. It is not too large on my wrist.
Very useful device to track my progress
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I bought this a month ago and immediately started my training plan with Greg McMillan (coach included in Garmin app) for a 10k race. I am able to keep a detailed track of my progress which helps me with aware of my progress while continuously been motivated
Great
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I got it about a month ago and the best thing I like about it is a battery life it's just huge 10 plus days even with me using it all the time and the health stuff the pulse oximetry, heart rate Etc it's a great watch.
Reliable!
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Very easy to use and has lots of useful gadgets ,plus you can download more. It also has music! Great watch.
So much better than my Apple watch
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Switched from the Apple Watch, my only complaint is I wish I would have done it sooner