Forerunner 265S Music

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE

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 customize your report to show you what you want to see.

RACE ADAPTIVE TRAINING PLANS

Get ready for your next race, including marathons, with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions. Just enter your race, and we’ll build a plan that’ll help you meet your goals.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS

Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery and take into account the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ calendar.

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.

PLAN

GARMIN COACH

Free adaptive 5K, 10K and half marathon training plans from expert coaches.

RECOVERY TIME

Know how long you need to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training.

COURSES

Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app, or sync from your favorite third party platforms.

SLEEP MONITORING AND SLEEP SCORE

Understand how your body’s recovery with sleep score, breakdown of your sleep stages and detailed insights for improved sleep quality.

BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING

See your energy levels throughout the day so you’ll know when your body is charged up and ready for activity or drained and needing to recharge with restful sleep. And get even more details and personal insights on how sleep, naps, daily activities and high stress specifically impact your energy1.

NAP DETECTION

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and to check the recommended time and duration they should be.

RACE PREDICTOR

Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and marathon.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.

PREPARE

WRIST-BASED RUNNING DYNAMICS

This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

The watch constantly samples your heart rate to help you gauge how hard you work during activities1.

ACUTE LOAD

Compare your recent training load to the optimal range to help improve your fitness.

TRAINING EFFECT

See how your workouts influence your endurance, speed and power.

PERFORMANCE CONDITION

While you run, get an analysis of your pace and heart rate for a real-time assessment of your current ability to perform.

VO2 MAX

See your current fitness level and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more.

INTENSITY MINUTES

Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes.

HEALTH SNAPSHOT

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your healthcare provider.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

PULSE OX SENSOR

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep2.

AUDIO PROMPTS

Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts.

CROSS TRAINING

Forerunner 265S is preloaded with free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts so you can switch up how you sweat.

PERFORM

WRIST-BASED RUNNING POWER

See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

SATIQ™ TECHNOLOGY AND MULTI-BAND GPS

Get superior positioning accuracy and optimized battery life.

PACEPRO™ FEATURE

Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS

Tap in to 30+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more.

TRACK RUNNING

Record accurate lap distances and see your distances in meters.

TRIATHLON AND MULTISPORT PROFILES

Switch between sports with one press by using built-in profiles or you can create your own.

CONNECT

MUSIC

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening.

SAFETY AND TRACKING

If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location3. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.

GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS

Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providersSMART NOTIFICATIONS

Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone.

LIVETRACK FEATURE

Friends and family can follow your real-time location3 and view pre planned courses.

GARMIN CONNECT APP

See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more — in this free, zero-subscription app.

General

LENS MATERIAL : Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3

BEZEL MATERIAL : Fiber-reinforced polymer

QUICK RELEASE BANDS : yes (18 mm, Industry standard)

STRAP MATERIAL : silicone

PHYSICAL SIZE

• 41.7 x 41.7 x 12.9 (mm)

• Fits wrists with a circumference of 115-178 mm

WEIGHT : 39 g

DISPLAY SIZE : 1.1" (28.1 mm) diameter

DISPLAY RESOLUTION : 360 x 360 pixels

COLOR DISPLAY : Yes

LARGE FONT OPTION : Yes

BATTERY LIFE 

• Smartwatch mode: Up to 15 days.

• GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 24 hours.

• SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 18 hours.

• All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 15 hours.

• GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7.5 hours.

• SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours.

• All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 6 hours

CHARGING METHOD : Garmin proprietary plug charger

MEMORY/HISTORY : 8 GB

Clock Features

• Time/date.

• Gps time sync.

• Automatic daylight saving time.

• Alarm clock.

• Timer.

• Stopwatch.

• Sunrise/sunset times.

Health & Wellness Monitoring

• Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) :Yes

• Daily resting heart rate :Yes

• Abnormal heart rate alerts :Yes (high and low)

• Respiration rate (24x7) :Yes

• Pulse ox blood oxygen saturation :Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)

• Fitness age :Yes

• Body battery™ energy monitor :Yes

• All-day stress :Yes

• Relaxation reminders :Yes

• Relaxation breathing timer :Yes

• Breathwork :Yes

• Sleep :Yes (advanced)

• Nap detection :Yes

• Hydration :Yes (in garmin connect™ and optional connect iq™ widget).

• Women's health :Yes (in garmin connect™ and optional connect iq™ widget).

• Health snapshot :Yes

Sensors

• GPS.

• Glonass.

• Galileo.

• Satiq™ technology.

• Garmin elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor.

• Pulse ox blood oxygen saturation monitor.

• Barometric altimeter.

• Compass.

• Gyroscope.

• Accelerometer.

• Thermometer.

• Ambient light sensor.

Daily smart features

• Connectivity : Bluetooth®, ant+®, wi-fi®

• Connect iq™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) : Yes

• On-device connect iq™ store : Yes

• Smart notifications : Yes

• Text response/reject phone call with text (android™ only) : Yes

• View images from notifications on watch (android™ only) : Yes

• Morning report : Yes

• Calendar : Yes

• Weather forecasts : Yes

• Realtime settings sync with garmin connect™ mobile : Yes

• Battery saver (customizable low power watch) : Yes

• Controls smartphone music : Yes

• Plays and controls watch music : Yes

• Find my phone : Yes

• Find my watch : Yes

• Virb® remote : Yes

• smart trainer control : Yes

• Pairs with garmin connect™ mobile : Yes

• Smartphone compatibility : Iphone® and android™

• Red shift mode : Yes

Safety and Tracking Features

• Incident detection during select activities : Yes

• Incident detection alert on phone for wearables : Yes

• Assistance : Yes

• Livetrack : Yes

• Live event sharing : Android™ only

Activity Tracking Features

• Step counter : Yes

• Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity) : Yes

• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) : Yes

• Calories burned : Yes

• Floors climbed : Yes

• Distance traveled : Yes

• Intensity minutes : Yes

• Trueup™ : Yes

• Move iq™ : Yes

• Garmin connect™ challenges app : Yes (optional connect iq app)

Gym & Fitness Equipment

• Cardio workouts : Yes

• Strength workouts : Yes

• Hiit workouts : Yes

• Yoga workouts : Yes

• Pilates workouts : Yes

• On-screen workout animations : Yes

• On-screen workout muscle maps : Yes

• Automatic rep counting : Yes

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

• Customizable data pages : Yes

• Downloadable training plans : Yes

• Course guidance : Yes

• HR zones : Yes

• HR alerts : Yes

• HR calories : Yes

• % hr max : Yes

• % hrr : Yes

• Recovery time : Yes

• Auto max hr : Yes

• Race glance/widget : Yes

• HRV status : Yes

• HR broadcast (broadcasts hr data over ant+® to paired devices) : Yes

• Respiration rate (during exercise) : Yes (with compatible accessory)

• GPS speed and distance : Yes

• Customizable activity profiles : Yes

• Auto pause® : Yes

• Interval training : Yes

• Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection) : Yes

• Advanced workouts : Yes

• Hrm running pace and distance : Yes

• Auto lap® : Yes

• Manual lap : Yes

• Rest timer : Yes

• Configurable lap alerts : Yes

• vo2 max (run) : Yes

• vo2 max (trail run) : Yes

• Load ratio; : Yes

• training load : Yes

• Training load focus : Yes

• training effect : Yes

• training effect (anaerobic) : Yes

• Primary benefit (training effect labels) : Yes

• Custom alerts : Yes

• Audio prompts : Yes

• Finish time : Yes

• Virtual partner : Yes

• Race an activity : Yes

• Auto multisport activities : Yes

• Manual multisport activities : Yes

• Touch and/or button lock : Yes

• Hot keys : Yes

• Auto scroll : Yes

• Activity history on watch : Yes

• physio trueup : Yes

• Unified training status : Yes