Description
Train brilliantly with an AMOLED display. What if your next race was the performance of a lifetime? And Garmin Coach training plans helped you do something you’ve never done? With the Garmin Forerunner 265 Smartwatch, you’ll see every insight lit up on a colourful AMOLED touchscreen display. Get ready to be better for it.
Garmin Forerunner 265 GPS Running Smartwatch Features
MORNING REPORT
Receive an overview of your sleep1 and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customise your report to show you what you want to see.
GARMIN COACH
Prepare for your next race, train for a milestone, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin Coach adaptive or prebuilt running, cycling or strength training plans. For more personalised workouts, select plans even adapt based on your performance and health metrics.
DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS
Get workouts made specifically for you and based on your data. These run recommendations vary in intensity and adapt after every run to take into account performance and recovery.
TRAINING READINESS
From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.
TRAINING STATUS
Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and performance, get an easy insight into your overall effort — and whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.
HRV STATUS
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability, while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.
Specifications
- Sleep Score and Insights
Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 13 days
Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation: Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
Garmin Pay™
MULTI-BAND GPS
Music storage
training readiness
Training status Improved
Watch display type: AMOLED; optional always-on mode
Touchscreen
Water rating: 5 ATM - Strap material: Silicone
Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
Bezel material: Fiber-reinforced polymer
Quick release bands: Yes (22 mm, Industry standard)
Physical size: 46.1 x 46.1 x 12.9 (mm)
Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-205 mm
Weight: 47 g
Display Size: 32.5 mm (1.3″) diameter
Display Resolution: 416 x 416 pixels
Colour display
Large font option
Battery type: Lithium ion
Battery life: Smartwatch mode: Up to 13 days / GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 20 hours / SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 16 hours / All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 14 hours / GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours /SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 6 hours / All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 6 hours
Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
Memory/history: 8 GB
What activities is the Garmin Forerunner 265 Smartwatch Suitable For?
| GYM | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing, Jump Roping |
| MULTISPORT | Swimming/Running, Triathlon |
| WELLNESS | Walking, Indoor Walking, Pilates, Yoga |
| INDOOR RUNNING | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running |
| OUTDOOR RUNNING | Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running, Obstacle Racing |
| OUTDOOR RECREATION | Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Hunting, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Disc Golf, Archery |
| CYCLING | Biking, Road biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel biking, Bike commuting, Bike touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross, BMX |
| SWIM | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
| ON THE WATER | Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Fishing, Boating, Sailing, Water Skiing, Wakeboarding, Wakesurfing, Tubing, Snorkeling, Whitewater |
| MOTOR SPORTS | Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motorcrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling |
| RACKET SPORTS | Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball |
| SNOW & WINTER | Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing |
| SPORT PROFILES | Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball |
| IN THE RING | Boxing, Mixed martial arts |
| OTHER ACTIVITY PROFILES | Inline Skating |
