Garmin | SKU: 010-02810-10

Forerunner 265 Music Smartwatch

Fitness Trackers

€430⁰⁰ €450⁰⁰

Color: Black

Garmin Forerunner 265 Music Smartwatch Whitestone-Aqua-Black #- 53 Degrees North

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Description

What if your next race was the performance of a lifetime? And personalised daily suggested workouts helped you do something you’ve never done? With the forerunner 265 running smartwatch, you’ll see every insight lit up on a bright and colourful amoled touchscreen display. Get ready to be better for it.

Specifications

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.
- RACE WIDGET: Get ready for your next race — whether it’s a 10K or marathon — with training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on course details, weather and performance.
- 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.
Specs
What You'll Love
- 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
General
- Strap material: Silicone
- Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
- Bezel material: Fibre-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
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- 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): ✓
- Resting heart rate: ✓
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low) ✓
- Respiration Rate: ✓
- Fitness Age: ✓
- Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: ✓
- All-day Stress: ✓
- Relaxation reminders: ✓
- Relaxation Breathing Timer: ✓
- Meditation: ✓
- Breathwork: ✓
- Sleep: Yes (Advanced) ✓
- Sleep coach: ✓
- Breathing variations: ✓
- Nap detection: ✓
- Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
- Women's Health: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
- Health Snapshot: ✓
- JET LAG ADVISER: ✓
Sensors
- GPS: ✓
- GLONASS: ✓
- Galileo: ✓
- QZSS: ✓
- BeiDou: ✓
- 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 and apps): ✓
- On-device Connect IQ™ Store: ✓
- Smart Notifications: ✓
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): ✓
- View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only): ✓
- Morning report: ✓
- Calendar: ✓
- Weather forecasts: ✓
- Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile: ✓
- Battery Saver - customisable low power watch: ✓
- Controls smartphone music: ✓
- Plays and controls watch music: ✓
- Find my phone: ✓
- Find my watch: ✓
- Find My Phone during GPS activity: ✓
- Compatible with Garmin Messenger app: ✓
- VIRB ® camera remote: ✓
- Smart trainer control: ✓
- Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: ✓
- Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
- Stocks: Yes (optional Connect IQ app) ✓
- Red shift mode: ✓
- Garmin Share: ✓
- Passcode: ✓
Workout and Training Plans
- Daily Suggested Workout - Running (Pace and Heart Rate Based): ✓
- Daily Suggested Workout - Cycling (Pace and Heart Rate Based): ✓
- Garmin Running Coach: ✓
- Garmin Running Coach Experts: ✓
- Garmin Cycling Coach: ✓
- Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans: ✓
- Garmin Coach - Strength: ✓
- Cardio workouts: ✓
- Strength workouts: ✓
- HIIT workouts: ✓
- Yoga workouts: ✓
- Pilates workouts: ✓
- On-screen workout animations: ✓
- On-Screen Workout Muscle Map: ✓
Activity profiles
- Gym: Strength, HIIT, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing
- Multisport: Triathlon
- WELLNESS: Walking, Pilates, Yoga
- INDOOR RUNNING: Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running
- Outdoor running: Running, Outdoor Track Running Trail Running, Ultra Running
- Outdoor recreation: Hiking
- Cycling: Biking, Mountain Biking, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking
- Swim: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
- On the water: Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing
- Racket sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
- Snow & Winter: Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing
- Sport profiles: Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
- In the ring: Boxing, Mixed martial arts
- Other activity profiles: Inline Skating
Safety and tracking features
- Incident Detection during select activities: ✓
- Incident detection alert on phone for wearables: ✓
- Assistance: ✓
- Live Event Sharing: Android™ Only
Activity tracking features
- Step counter: ✓
- Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): ✓
- Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): ✓
- Calories Burned: ✓
- Floors climbed: ✓
- Distance travelled: ✓
- Intensity minutes: ✓
- TrueUp™: ✓
- Move IQ™: ✓
- Garmin Connect™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ app) ✓
- Automatic rep counting: ✓
Training, planning and analysis features
- Customisable screen(s): ✓
- Downloadable training plans: ✓
- Course guidance: ✓
- HR Zones: ✓
- HR Alerts: ✓
- HR Calories: ✓
- % HR Max: ✓
- % HRR: ✓
- Recovery Time: ✓
- Auto Max HR: ✓
- Race glance/widget: ✓
- HRV Status: ✓
- HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices): ✓
- Respiration Rate (During Exercise): Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
- GPS speed and distance: ✓
- Customisable activity profiles: ✓
- Auto Pause® automatic timer halt: ✓
- Interval training: ✓
- Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection): ✓
- Advanced workouts: ✓
- HRM running pace and distance: ✓
- Auto Lap® interval tracking feature: ✓
- Manual lap: ✓
- Rest timer: ✓
- Configurable lap alerts: ✓
- VO2 Max (Run): ✓
- VO2 Max (Trail Run): ✓
- Load ratio: ✓
- Training Load: ✓
- Training load focus: ✓
- Training Effect: ✓
- Training Effect (Anaerobic): ✓
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels): ✓
- Improved Recovery Time: ✓
- Customisable alerts: ✓
- Voice alerts: ✓
- Multisport auto transition: ✓
- Finish time: ✓
- Virtual partner: ✓
- Race an activity: ✓
- Multi-sport: ✓
- Touch and/or button lock: ✓
- Shortcuts: ✓
- 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: Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
- Stride length (real time): ✓
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): ✓
- Running power: ✓
- Grade-adjusted pace: ✓
- Performance condition: ✓
- Lactate threshold: ✓
- 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
- Point-to-point navigation: ✓
- Bread crumbtrail in real time: ✓
- Back to start: ✓
- TracBack®: ✓
- UltraTrac mode: ✓
- Up Ahead: ✓
- Elevation profile: ✓
- Distance to destination: ✓
- Barometric trend indicator with storm alert: ✓
- Vertical speed: ✓
- Total ascent/descent: ✓
- Rest Timer (Ultra Run only): ✓
- Auto Rest: ✓
- Future elevation plot: ✓
- Area calculation: Yes (via Connect IQ™) ✓
- Fish forecast: Yes (via Connect IQ™) ✓
- Projected waypoint: ✓
- Sun and moon information: ✓
Cycling features
- Courses: ✓
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): ✓
- Race an activity: ✓
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): ✓
- Power curve and % FTP workouts: ✓
- Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters): ✓
- Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): ✓
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): ✓
- Compatible with Varia™ lights: ✓
- Compatible with Varia headlight camera: ✓
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor): ✓
- Power meter compatible: ✓
Swimming features
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): ✓
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): ✓
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): ✓
- Drill logging (pool swim only): ✓
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): ✓
- "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only): ✓
- Auto rest (pool swim only): ✓
- Time and distance alerts: ✓
- Pacing alerts (pool swim only): ✓
- Countdown start: ✓
- Pool swim workouts: ✓
- Critical swim speed: ✓
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate: ✓
- Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes (with HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro or HRM-Pro Plus) ✓
Kid activity tracking features
- Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) ✓
Security and Legal Information
- Security updates until at least (YYYY-MM-DD): 2025-03-02
Material
What's included
- Forerunner® 265 Running Watch
- USB-C charging/data cable
- Documentation
Ideal for

Running, Hiking, Cycling