Garmin Instinct Crossover Solar

The Garmin Instinct Crossover Solar is a rugged hybrid GPS smartwatch designed for users who want classic analogue hands, advanced outdoor tracking, and exceptional battery performance in a durable adventure-ready design. Built with solar charging, multi-GNSS support, health monitoring features, and a wide range of sport and outdoor activity profiles, it is made for training, exploration, and everyday use. With a tough construction, 10 ATM water rating, and long battery life across multiple GPS modes, it is an excellent choice for athletes, adventurers, and outdoor users who need dependable performance on and off the grid.

FEATURES

Hybrid Rugged Outdoor Design
Combines analogue hands with a monochrome sunlight-visible display, giving users classic watch styling with modern smartwatch and GPS functionality in a durable body.

Extended Solar Battery Life
Delivers outstanding battery performance with solar charging support, offering long runtimes across smartwatch, battery saver, GPS, and expedition GPS modes.

Adventure-Ready Navigation Tools
Supports GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, barometric altimeter, compass, accelerometer, and thermometer to help users navigate and track activity in challenging outdoor environments.

Comprehensive Health Monitoring
Tracks wrist-based heart rate, Pulse Ox, respiration, Body Battery, stress, sleep, hydration, women’s health, and Health Snapshot for daily wellness awareness.

Broad Activity Profile Support
Includes profiles for triathlon, running, trail running, cycling, swimming, hiking, climbing, skiing, watersports, motorsports, racket sports, team sports, boxing, tactical use, and more.

Smart Connectivity and Safety
Offers Bluetooth and ANT+ connectivity, smart notifications, Garmin Connect Mobile compatibility, LiveTrack, incident detection during select activities, and useful smartwatch convenience features.

SPECIFICATIONS

Model: Instinct Crossover Solar

Display Type: Monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)

Solar Charging: Yes

Water Rating: 10 ATM

Lens Material: Power Glass

Case Material: Fibre-reinforced polymer / stainless steel

Strap Material: Silicone

QuickFit Watch Band Compatible: Yes, 22 mm

Physical Size: 45.0 x 45.0 x 16.2 mm

Fit Range: Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-230 mm

Weight: 65 g

Display Size: Custom, with a centre hole: 0.9" x 0.9" (23 x 23 mm)

Display Resolution: 176 x 176 pixels

Battery Life Smartwatch Mode: Up to 28 days / 70 days with solar

Battery Life Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 71 days / unlimited with solar

Battery Life GPS Mode: Up to 25 hours / 31 hours with solar

Battery Life Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 111 hours / 553 hours with solar

Battery Life Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 40 days / 327 days with solar

Charging Method: Garmin proprietary plug charger

Memory / History: 64 MB

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

Health Monitoring: Wrist-based heart rate, Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation, respiration rate, fitness age, Body Battery, all-day stress, relaxation breathing timer, breathwork, sleep, hydration, women’s health, Health Snapshot

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

Connectivity: Bluetooth, ANT+

Smart Features: Connect IQ, smart notifications, text response/reject phone call with text for Android only, calendar, weather forecasts, realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect Mobile, battery saver, find my phone, find my watch, VIRB camera remote, smart trainer control, Garmin Connect Mobile compatibility, stocks via optional Connect IQ app

Smartphone Compatibility: iPhone, Android

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

Multisport Profile: Triathlon

Wellness Profiles: Walking, Pilates, yoga

Indoor Running Profiles: Treadmill running, indoor track running

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

Outdoor Recreation Profiles: Hiking, indoor climbing, bouldering, climbing, hunting, horseback riding, archery

Cycling Profiles: Biking, road biking, mountain biking, gravel biking, bike commuting, bike touring, eBiking, eMountain biking, indoor biking

Swim Profiles: Pool swimming, open water swimming

On The Water Profiles: Stand up paddleboarding, rowing, kayaking, surfing, kiteboarding, windsurfing, fishing, boating, sailing, sail racing, water skiing, wakeboarding, wakesurfing, tubing, sailing expedition, whitewater, snorkeling

Motor Sports Profiles: Motorcycling, overlanding, motorcrossing, ATVing, snowmobile

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

Snow and Winter Profiles: Skiing, snowboarding, backcountry snowboarding, XC classic skiing, backcountry skiing, ice skating, snowshoeing

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

In The Ring Profiles: Boxing, mixed martial arts

Other Activity Profiles: Jumpmaster, tactical

Safety Features: Incident detection during select activities, LiveTrack, live event sharing

Tactical Features: Xero locations

Miscellaneous Features: Gaming activity, GameOn app compatible

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, automatic rep counting

Training Features: Customisable screens, downloadable training plans, course guidance, HR zones, HR alerts, HR calories, % HR max, % HRR, recovery time, HRV status, HR broadcast using ANT+, respiration rate during exercise, GPS speed and distance, customisable activity profiles, Auto Pause, interval training, advanced workouts, power modes, Auto Lap, manual lap, heat and altitude acclimation, VO2 max run, VO2 max trail run, training load, training effect, anaerobic training effect, primary benefit labels, customisable alerts, 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 with compatible accessory, vertical oscillation and ratio with compatible accessory, ground contact time and balance with compatible accessory, stride length with compatible accessory, cadence, running power, performance condition, lactate threshold with compatible accessory, run workouts, trail run auto climb, race predictor, foot pod capable, run/walk/stand detection