Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar

Sale price$919.00

Premium Solar-Powered Running Smartwatch
✓ Know when you're primed for training
✓ Extend battery life with solar charging
✓ Power up to 20 days of battery life
✓ Full-colour, built-in maps and multi-band GPS


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Outshine The Competition

Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar is a solar-powered running watch that features up to 20 days of battery life, responsive touchscreen, HRV status, and much more.

Solar Powered Battery

Get up to 20 days of battery life in smartwatch mode with solar charging. In GPS mode, get up to 42 hours and up to 49 hours when solar charging. With UltraTrac mode, go even longer with up to 110 hours when solar charging.

Touchscreen & 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.

Made for Medals

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 customise 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 variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics team.

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

View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect smartphone app calendar.

Garmin Coach

Free adaptive training plans include 5K, 10K and half-marathon programs, featuring guidance from expert coaches that adapt to you and your goals.

Wrist-Based Running Power

See how much power you’re applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory required.

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.

Wrist-Based Running Dynamics

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

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 effect feedback.

PacePro Feature

The PacePro feature 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.

Go The Distance. Know The Distance.

SatIQ Technology & Multi-Band GPS

Get superior positioning accuracy and optimised battery life.

Full-Colour Mapping

Whether you’re running on city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 955 provides, full-colour, 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 planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.

Safety & Tracking

If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, Assistance and incident detection features1 send 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.

Be in Touch with Your Body

Wrist-Based Heart Rate

The watch constantly samples your heart rate with 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

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

Sleep Monitoring & Sleep Score

Get a score for your sleep’s quality and insights on how you can do better. Even keep track of the different sleep stages as well as heart rate, stress, Pulse Ox3 and respiration.

Pulse Ox Sensor

This wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.

Women's Health Tracking

Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or 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, heart rate variability, Pulse Ox, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats to share via the Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone.

Stay Connected

Music

Download songs plus playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts (subscription may be required). Use wireless headphones (not included) for phone-free listening.

Garmin Pay

Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.

Smart Notifications

Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible device.

Smart Trainer Control

Control your Tacx Smart trainer via ANT+ technology for course simulation, automatic resistance changes and workout prompts when you use courses or workouts from your watch.

Connect IQ Store

Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store on your compatible smartphone.

Garmin Connect App

See your health and fitness information, connect and compete with friends, sign up for challenges to earn badges and more — all in one free, zero-subscription app.

Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar

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