Garmin Forerunner® 955 Solar

Battery for days, up to 20 days in smartwatch mode to be exact. More battery means knowing more about your overall health. Built for endurance, precision, and performance. The Forerunner 955 Solar features Power Glass™ solar charging, multi-band GNSS, advanced training insights, and full health tracking — everything you need for running, triathlon, and adventure.

FEATURES

Body Battery Energy Monitoring
Tracks your body’s energy levels by measuring heart rate, stress, sleep, and activity throughout the day to help you schedule rest and activity effectively.

Solar Charging Technology
Power Glass™ solar lens extends battery life by converting sunlight into energy — giving up to 20 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 49 hours in GPS mode.

Stress Tracking
Helps you monitor your stress levels, showing when your body is calm, balanced, or under strain. Includes guided breathing exercises to help you relax.

Heart Rate
Continuously tracks heart rate from your wrist and alerts you when your resting heart rate is too high or too low.

Sleep Monitoring & Sleep Score
Analyzes sleep stages (light, deep, REM) and provides a detailed sleep score with respiration and Pulse Ox data to improve recovery and rest.

Vivid Full-Colour Display
Features a bright, sunlight-visible, full-colour display with touchscreen and button control for intuitive navigation.

Multi-Band GNSS Accuracy
Uses advanced multi-frequency satellite tracking for superior GPS accuracy even in dense forests, urban canyons, and mountainous terrain.

Training Readiness
Combines sleep quality, recovery, training load, and stress to indicate how ready your body is to perform each day.

Training Status
Evaluates your recent exercise history and performance metrics to show whether you’re productive, peaking, or overreaching.

Training Load & Recovery
Measures overall training effort over time and suggests recovery duration to prevent overtraining.

Built-in Sports Apps
Includes 30+ preloaded activity profiles — running, triathlon, cycling, swimming (pool/open-water), strength training, yoga, hiking, and more.

Race Widget
Prepares you for upcoming races with training tips, daily suggested workouts, and performance predictions.

Smart Notifications
Receive calls, texts, and app alerts directly on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone.

Music Storage & Playback
Store up to 2,000 songs and stream from Spotify®, Amazon Music, or Deezer accounts — enjoy phone-free listening during workouts.

Garmin Pay
Make secure, contactless payments right from your wrist using Garmin Pay (where supported).

Safety & Tracking Features
Includes incident detection, LiveTrack, and Assistance features that share your real-time location with emergency contacts.

Connect IQ Compatibility
Customize your device with free watch faces, data fields, and apps from the Connect IQ™ Store.

Water Rating
Rated to 5 ATM (50 m) — safe for swimming, showering, and everyday water exposure.

SPECIFICATIONS

Watch Display Type: Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) colour touchscreen display

Touchscreen: Yes (with button control option)

Water Rating: Swim, 5 ATM (50 m)

Strap Material: Silicone quick-release band

Lens Material: Power Glass™ (solar-charging lens)

Bezel / Case Material: Fiber-reinforced polymer case

Quick Release Bands: Yes (22 mm standard)

Physical Size: 46.5 × 46.5 × 14.4 mm

Fits Wrists: 130 – 220 mm circumference

Weight: 52 g

Display Size: 1.3″ (33 mm) diameter

Display Resolution: 260 × 260 pixels

Battery Life: Smartwatch mode – up to 20 days with solar; GPS mode – up to 49 hours with solar; UltraTrac mode – up to 110 hours with solar

Charging Interface: Proprietary Garmin charging/data cable

Memory / History: 32 GB internal storage (includes music storage)

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

Sensors: Wrist-based heart rate sensor, Pulse Ox, barometric altimeter, compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, thermometer, multi-GNSS support

Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®

Smartphone Compatibility: iPhone®, Android™

Smart Features: Notifications, text reply/reject (Android), calendar, weather, music control/playback, Find My Phone/Watch, Garmin Connect™ Mobile compatibility

Health & Wellness Monitoring: Continuous HR, resting HR, abnormal HR alerts, respiration rate, Body Battery™, stress tracking, relaxation reminders, sleep tracking with score, hydration tracking, women’s health tracking, Pulse Ox (spot check/all-day/in sleep)

Activity Profiles: Running (indoor/outdoor), cycling (indoor/outdoor), triathlon, swimming (pool/open-water), strength training, HIIT, yoga, hiking, trail running and more

Activity Tracking Features: Step counter, move alerts, auto goal, calories burned, floors climbed, intensity minutes, TrueUp™, Move IQ™

Training & Analysis Features: Training readiness, training status, VO₂ max, race predictor, race widget, training load ratio, recovery time, running dynamics, custom data pages

Running Features: GPS-based distance, time, pace, cadence, stride length, ground contact time, run/walk detection

Cycling Features: Time, distance and heart rate alerts; supports speed and cadence sensors via ANT+/BLE

Swimming Features: Pool and open-water swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, SWOLF), stroke detection, rest timers

Golfing Features: Compatible with Garmin Golf app for yardage and scoring features when synced

Outdoor Recreation: Back to Start, breadcrumb routing, sun and moon information, preloaded maps and turn-by-turn navigation

Safety & Tracking: Incident detection, LiveTrack, Assistance messaging

Kid Activity Tracking: Optional via Garmin Connect Challenges

Battery Runtime (General Use): Up to 20 days in smartwatch mode with solar

Durability: Swim-proof, heat and weather resistant — built for performance athletes

In the Box: Forerunner 955 Solar watch, charging/data cable, documentation