Garmin Instinct 3 Solar

The Garmin Instinct 3 Solar is a rugged GPS smartwatch built for outdoor adventure, daily training, health tracking, and long-lasting performance. Designed with solar charging, a durable fibre-reinforced polymer case, Power Glass lens, 10 ATM water rating, LED flashlight, and multi-band GPS, it is made for users who need reliable support in tough conditions.

With up to 28 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and unlimited battery life with solar charging, the Instinct 3 Solar is ready for extended use on the trail, in training, or during everyday wear. It also includes Garmin Pay, sleep insights, training readiness, training status, smart notifications, sports profiles, navigation tools, and advanced wellness monitoring to help you stay connected, prepared, and active.

FEATURES

Solar Charging: Extends battery life with solar support, offering up to 28 days in smartwatch mode and unlimited battery life with solar exposure.

Rugged Design: Built with a Power Glass lens and fibre-reinforced polymer case for reliable durability during outdoor activities and daily use.

Multi-Band GPS: Supports accurate positioning with GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, SatIQ technology, and multi-band GPS for better tracking in challenging environments.

LED Flashlight: Integrated flashlight adds practical visibility for low-light activities, night use, outdoor movement, and emergency situations.

Health Monitoring: Tracks wrist-based heart rate, Pulse Ox, sleep score, sleep coach, Body Battery, stress, respiration, fitness age, hydration, and Health Snapshot.

Training Tools: Includes training readiness, training status, daily suggested workouts, recovery time, HRV status, VO2 Max, training load, and performance insights.

Smart Features: Supports Garmin Pay, smart notifications, Garmin Connect, Connect IQ apps, weather, calendar, Find My Phone, Garmin Messenger, and Garmin Share.

Outdoor Navigation: Includes breadcrumb trail, TracBack, point-to-point navigation, elevation profile, barometric trend indicator, storm alert, GPS coordinates, and expedition GPS activity.

Sports Profiles: Covers running, cycling, swimming, gym workouts, hiking, climbing, golf, racket sports, snow sports, water sports, motorsports, tactical activities, and more.

Safety Features: Includes incident detection during select activities, LiveTrack, live event sharing, assistance alerts, and phone-based incident detection support.

SPECIFICATIONS

Model: Garmin Instinct 3 Solar

Display Type: Monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel display

Display Size: Custom two-window design, 27 x 27 mm / 1.1 x 1.1 inch

Display Resolution: 176 x 176 pixels

Lens Material: Power Glass

Case Material: Fibre-reinforced polymer

Strap Material: Silicone

Physical Size: 45 x 45 x 14.9 mm

Wrist Fit: Fits wrists with a circumference of 137–204 mm

Weight: 52 g

Water Rating: 10 ATM

Battery Life Smartwatch Mode: Up to 28 days, unlimited with solar

Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 65 days, unlimited with solar

GPS Only Mode: Up to 40 hours, up to 130 hours with solar

All Satellite Systems: Up to 28 hours, up to 50 hours with solar

All Satellite Systems + Multi-Band: Up to 24 hours, up to 40 hours with solar

Max Battery GPS: Up to 100 hours, unlimited with solar

Expedition GPS: Up to 36 days, unlimited with solar

Memory/History: 128 MB

Connectivity: Bluetooth, ANT+

Smartphone Compatibility: iPhone and Android

GPS Support: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, SatIQ technology, multi-band GPS

Sensors: Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor, Pulse Ox, barometric altimeter, compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, thermometer

QuickFit Watch Band: Compatible, 22 mm

Solar Charging: Yes

LED Flashlight: Yes

Garmin Pay: Yes

Sleep Score and Insights: Yes

Training Readiness: Yes

Training Status: Yes

Daily Suggested Workouts: Yes

Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: Yes

Large Font Option: Yes

Activity Profiles: Gym, running, cycling, swimming, outdoor recreation, water sports, motorsports, racket sports, snow sports, team sports, boxing, mixed martial arts, tactical, jumpmaster and inline skating

Running Features: GPS-based distance, time and pace, running dynamics, running power, grade-adjusted pace, PacePro pacing, race predictor, trail run auto climb and run workouts

Cycling Features: Courses, bike lap, power meter compatibility, Vector and Rally compatibility, Varia radar and lights support, MTB Grit and Flow, speed and cadence sensor support

Swimming Features: Pool swim metrics, open-water swim metrics, stroke detection, drill logging, auto rest, countdown start, pool swim workouts and underwater wrist-based heart rate

Golf Features: Yardage to front, middle and back of green, layups and doglegs, digital scorecard, stat tracking, Garmin AutoShot, Green View and tournament legal mode

Outdoor Recreation Features: Point-to-point navigation, breadcrumb trail, back to start, TracBack, UltraTrac, reference point, elevation profile, distance to destination, storm alert, projected waypoint, tides and sun/moon information

Tactical Features: Dual grid coordinates and XERO locations

Gaming Features: Gaming activity and GameOn app compatibility

Security Updates: Until at least 2027-01-06