Garmin Vivoactive 5

The Garmin vívoactive 5 is a lightweight health and fitness smartwatch designed to deliver advanced wellness insights, everyday smart features, and versatile activity tracking in a bright AMOLED design. Built for users who want a comfortable daily-wear smartwatch with strong fitness and recovery tools, it combines music storage, Garmin Pay, wheelchair mode, sleep coaching, and broad activity support in a compact format. With long battery life, touch display control, and comprehensive health monitoring, it is an excellent choice for daily wellness, workouts, and connected living.

FEATURES

Advanced Health and Wellness Tracking
Tracks sleep score, Pulse Ox, wrist-based heart rate, Body Battery, stress, respiration, hydration, women’s health, and Health Snapshot to give a broader view of daily wellbeing and recovery.

Bright AMOLED Touchscreen Display
Features a vivid 1.2-inch AMOLED display with optional always-on mode, offering sharp visuals and an easy-to-use touchscreen experience for everyday use.

Long Battery Life
Delivers up to 11 days in smartwatch mode, up to 21 days in battery saver mode, and up to 21 hours in GPS-only GNSS mode for dependable daily performance.

Smart Features for Everyday Use
Includes Garmin Pay, music storage, smart notifications, Connect IQ support, weather forecasts, and Garmin Connect Mobile compatibility for added convenience beyond workouts.

Inclusive Activity Tracking
Supports wheelchair mode, push tracking, weight shift alerts, and dedicated wheelchair workouts, making it a more inclusive fitness smartwatch for a wider range of users.

Lightweight Everyday Comfort
Built with a lightweight body, anodised aluminium bezel, Gorilla Glass DX lens, and silicone strap for comfortable all-day wear.

SPECIFICATIONS

Model: vívoactive 5

Display Type: AMOLED with optional always-on mode

Touchscreen: Yes

Water Rating: Swim, 5 ATM

Wheelchair Mode: Yes

Lens Material: Corning Gorilla Glass DX

Bezel Material: Anodised aluminium

Case Material: Fibre-reinforced polymer

Strap Material: Silicone

Quick Release Bands: Yes, 20 mm industry standard

Physical Size: 42.2 x 42.2 x 11.1 mm

Fit Range: Fits wrists with a circumference of 125-190 mm

Weight: 26 g case only, 36 g with included band

Display Size: 30.4 mm (1.2") diameter

Display Resolution: 390 x 390 pixels

Battery Life Smartwatch Mode: Up to 11 days, 5 days display always-on

Battery Saver Smartwatch Mode: Up to 21 days

Battery Life GPS-Only GNSS Mode: Up to 21 hours

Battery Life All-Systems GNSS Mode: Up to 17 hours

Battery Life All-Systems GNSS Mode With Music: Up to 8 hours

Charging Method: Garmin proprietary plug charger

Memory / History: 4 GB

Sleep Score and Insights: Yes

Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: Yes, spot-check and optionally all-day and in sleep

Garmin Pay: Yes

Music Storage: Yes

Clock Features: Time/date, GPS time sync, automatic daylight saving time, alarm clock, timer, stopwatch, sunrise/sunset times

Health Monitoring: Wrist-based heart rate, respiration rate, fitness age, Body Battery, all-day stress, relaxation reminders, relaxation breathing timer, meditation, breathwork, advanced sleep, sleep coach, hydration, women’s health, Health Snapshot

Sensors: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor, Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation monitor, compass, accelerometer, thermometer with tempe sensor required, ambient light sensor

Connectivity: Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi

Smart Features: Connect IQ, on-device Connect IQ store, smart notifications, text response and reject phone call with text for Android only, image viewing from notifications on watch for Android only, calendar, weather forecasts, realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect Mobile, battery saver, plays and controls watch music, find my phone, find my watch, Garmin Connect Mobile compatibility

Smartphone Compatibility: iPhone, Android

Gym Profiles: Strength, HIIT, cardio, elliptical training, stair stepping, indoor rowing, jump roping

Wellness Profiles: Walking, Pilates, yoga

Indoor Running Profiles: Treadmill running, indoor track running

Outdoor Running Profiles: Running

Outdoor Recreation Profiles: Disc golf

Cycling Profiles: Biking, indoor biking, handcycling, indoor handcycling

Swim Profiles: Pool swimming, open water swimming

On The Water Profiles: Stand up paddleboarding, rowing

Racket Sports Profiles: Tennis, pickleball, badminton, squash, table tennis, padel, platform tennis, racquetball

Snow and Winter Profiles: Skiing, snowboarding, XC classic skiing, snowshoeing, XC skate skiing

Sport Profiles: Basketball, volleyball, field hockey, ice hockey, football/soccer, American football, lacrosse, rugby, ultimate disc, cricket, softball, baseball

In The Ring Profiles: Boxing, mixed martial arts

Safety Features: Incident detection during select activities, incident detection alert on phone for wearables, LiveTrack

Miscellaneous Features: Gaming activity, GameOn app compatible

Activity Tracking: Step counter, push tracker, move alerts, weight shift alert, auto goal, calories burned, intensity minutes, TrueUp, Move IQ, Garmin Connect Challenges app

Fitness Features: Strength workouts, HIIT workouts, yoga workouts, Pilates workouts, workouts for wheelchair users, on-screen workout muscle map, automatic rep counting

Training Features: Customisable screens, downloadable training plans, HR zones, HR alerts, HR calories, % HR max, recovery time, HRV status, HR broadcast using ANT+ or BLE, respiration rate during exercise for yoga, breathwork and meditation only, GPS speed and distance, customisable activity profiles, Auto Pause, interval training, improved interval support, advanced workouts, HRM running pace and distance, Auto Lap, manual lap, VO2 max run, workout benefit, touch and/or button lock, auto scroll, activity history on watch, Physio TrueUp

Running Features: GPS-based distance, time and pace, cadence, run workouts, foot pod capable, run/walk/stand detection

Golf Features: Yardage to front, middle and back of green, yardage to layups and doglegs, automatic shot distance measurement, digital scorecard, stat tracking, Garmin AutoShot, Green View with manual pin position, hazards and course targets, PinPointer, round timer and odometer, automatic club tracking compatible with accessory, pairs with Garmin Golf app, tournament legal

Outdoor Recreation Features: Back to start, area calculation via Connect IQ, fish forecast via Connect IQ, sun and moon information via Connect IQ

Cycling Features: Alerts, compatible with Varia radar, compatible with Varia lights, speed and cadence sensor support using ANT+ or BLE

Swimming Features: Open-water swim metrics, pool swim metrics, stroke type detection, basic rest timer, auto rest, time and distance alerts, underwater wrist-based heart rate

Device Languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (EU), Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (International), Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese