Garmin Forerunner 265S

The Garmin Forerunner 265S is a compact premium GPS running smartwatch built for athletes who want advanced training insights, recovery guidance, and everyday wellness tracking in a lightweight design. It combines a bright AMOLED touchscreen display with multi-band GPS, training readiness, improved training status, music storage, Garmin Pay, and long battery life to support running, triathlon, cycling, swimming, and all-day wear. With deep health monitoring, smart connectivity, and broad sport profile coverage, it is an excellent choice for performance-focused users who want serious training tools in a smaller watch size.

FEATURES

Advanced Training and Recovery Tools
Includes training readiness, improved training status, daily suggested workouts for 7 days, HRV status, recovery time, training load, training load focus, training effect, VO2 max, race predictor, and race widget support for smarter performance planning.

Bright AMOLED Touchscreen Display
Features a 1.1-inch AMOLED display with optional always-on mode and touchscreen functionality for a vibrant, modern, and easy-to-read training experience.

Multi-Band GPS Accuracy
Supports multi-band GPS along with SatIQ technology, GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo for improved positioning performance across challenging environments.

Comprehensive Health Monitoring
Tracks wrist-based heart rate, Pulse Ox, respiration, fitness age, Body Battery, stress, sleep score, sleep coach, nap detection, hydration, women’s health, and health snapshot for complete daily wellness insights.

Smart Features and Connectivity
Offers Bluetooth, ANT+, and Wi-Fi connectivity, Garmin Pay, music storage, smart notifications, Connect IQ support, on-device Connect IQ store, phone finding, watch finding, and smartphone compatibility with iPhone and Android.

Multi-Sport Performance Design
Built for runners and multi-sport users with profiles for triathlon, cycling, swimming, hiking, racket sports, gym training, snow sports, team sports, boxing, and more, all packed into a lightweight 39 g body.

SPECIFICATIONS

Model: Forerunner 265S

Display Type: AMOLED with optional always-on mode

Touchscreen: Yes

Display Size: 28.1 mm (1.1") diameter

Display Resolution: 360 x 360 pixels

Lens Material: Corning Gorilla Glass 3

Bezel / Case Material: Fibre-reinforced polymer

Strap Material: Silicone

Quick Release Bands: Yes, 18 mm industry standard

Physical Size: 41.7 x 41.7 x 12.9 mm

Fit Range: Fits wrists with a circumference of 115-178 mm

Weight: 39 g

Battery Life Smartwatch Mode: Up to 15 days

Battery Life GPS-Only GNSS Mode: Up to 24 hours

Battery Life SatIQ GNSS Mode: Up to 18 hours

Battery Life All-Systems GNSS + Multi-Band: Up to 15 hours

Battery Life GPS-Only GNSS With Music: Up to 7.5 hours

Battery Life SatIQ GNSS With Music: Up to 7 hours

Battery Life All-Systems GNSS + Multi-Band With Music: Up to 6 hours

Charging Method: Garmin proprietary plug charger

Memory / History: 8 GB

Water Rating: 5 ATM

Daily Suggested Workouts: Yes, 7 days

Sleep Score and Insights: Yes

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

Garmin Pay: Yes

Multi-Band GPS: Yes

Music Storage: Yes

Training Readiness: Yes

Training Status: Improved

Time 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, breathwork, advanced sleep, sleep coach, nap detection, hydration, women’s health, health snapshot

Sensors: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, SatIQ technology, Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor, Pulse Ox sensor, barometric altimeter, compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, ambient light sensor, thermometer with tempe sensor required

Connectivity: Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi

Smart Features: Connect IQ, on-device Connect IQ store, smart notifications, text response and reject call with text for Android, image viewing from notifications for Android, calendar, weather forecasts, real-time settings sync with Garmin Connect Mobile, battery saver, plays and controls watch music, find my phone, find my watch, VIRB camera remote, smart trainer control, Garmin Connect Mobile compatibility, stocks via optional Connect IQ app, red shift mode

Smartphone Compatibility: iPhone, Android

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

Multisport Profile: Triathlon

Wellness Profiles: Walking, Pilates, yoga

Indoor Running Profiles: Treadmill running, indoor track running, virtual running

Outdoor Running Profiles: Running, outdoor track running, trail running, ultra running

Outdoor Recreation Profiles: Hiking

Cycling Profiles: Bike, indoor bike, mountain bike, eBike, eMountain biking, cyclocross, road bike, gravel bike, bike commute, bike tour

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, XC skate skiing

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

In The Ring Profiles: Boxing, mixed martial arts

Other Activity Profiles: Inline skating

Safety Features: Incident detection during select activities, incident detection alert on phone, LiveTrack, live event sharing for Android only

Activity Tracking: Step counter, move alerts, auto goal, calories burned, floors climbed, intensity minutes, TrueUp, Move IQ, Garmin Connect Challenges app

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

Training Features: Customisable screens, downloadable training plans, course guidance, HR zones, HR alerts, HR calories, % HR max, % HRR, recovery time, race glance widget, HRV status, HR broadcast, 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, Auto Lap, manual lap, rest timer, VO2 max run, VO2 max trail run, training load, training load focus, training effect, anaerobic training effect, primary benefit labels, customisable alerts, multisport auto transition, finish time, race an activity, auto multisport activities, touch and or button lock, hot keys, auto scroll, activity history on watch, Physio TrueUp, unified training status

Running Features: GPS-based distance time and pace, running dynamics, vertical oscillation and ratio, ground contact time and balance with accessory, stride length, cadence, running power, grade-adjusted pace, performance condition, lactate threshold with compatible accessory, PacePro pacing strategies, run workouts, trail run auto climb, race predictor, course- and weather-specific race predictor, foot pod capable, run/walk/stand detection

Outdoor Recreation Features: Point-to-point navigation, breadcrumb trail in real time, back to start, TracBack, UltraTrac mode, up ahead, elevation profile, distance to destination, barometric trend indicator with storm alert, vertical speed, rest timer for ultra run only, auto rest, future elevation plot, area calculation via Connect IQ, fish forecast via Connect IQ, projected waypoint, sun and moon information via Connect IQ

Cycling Features: Courses, bike lap and lap maximum power with power sensor, race an activity, alerts for goals, FTP with compatible accessory, power curve and %FTP workouts, compatible with Vector and Rally power meters, compatible with Varia Vision, compatible with Varia radar, compatible with Varia lights, speed and cadence sensor support using ANT+ or BLE, power meter compatible

Swimming Features: Open-water swim metrics, pool swim metrics, stroke type detection, drill logging, basic rest timer, repeat on rest timer, auto rest, time and distance alerts, pacing alerts, countdown start, pool swim workouts, underwater wrist-based heart rate, heart rate from external HRM with compatible HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro, or HRM-Pro Plus

Kid Activity Feature: Toe-to-Toe Challenges app via optional Connect IQ app