Garmin Forerunner 945

Premium GPS running/triathlon smartwatch with music.

Forerunner 945 is the GPS smartwatch that's designed for the driven, the qualifiers, the elite. We made this watch for you: the up-at-dawn runners and the conditioned-for-pain triathletes. While you chase your next victory, make sure you've got the right tool for the job.

• Sync music from select premium streaming services1 or store up to 1,000 songs on your watch, and connect with headphones (sold separately) enabled with Bluetooth® technology for phone-free listening
• Performance monitoring features include VO2 max and training status with adjustments for heat, altitude acclimation status, training load focus, recovery time, and aerobic and anaerobic training effects
• Garmin Pay™ contactless payment solution2 lets you make convenient payments with your watch so you can leave your cash and cards at home
• Full-colour, onboard maps guide you on your run so you never get lost during your workout
• Safety and tracking features include incident detection (during select activities) and assistance; both send your real-time location to emergency contacts3
• Battery life: up to 2 weeks in smartwatch mode, 10 hours in GPS mode with music or up to 60 hours in UltraTrac™ mode

Take your music on the go

Take your favourite music with you when you're on the run. Sync your carefully crafted playlists from select premium music streaming services1 such as Deezer, Spotify® and more for ad-free listening. You can store up to 1,000 songs right on your watch and transfer music from your own computer library as well. Then queue up your favourite playlist for easy listening through headphones enabled with Bluetooth technology.

Maximise performance

Forerunner 945 monitors your performance and even offers personalised insight, so you can train smarter, not harder. The smartwatch tracks your VO2 max and adjusts the value based on heat and altitude. Training status evaluates your recent exercise history and performance indicators to let you know if you're training productively, peaking or overreaching. See how your workouts influence the development of endurance, speed and power with aerobic and anaerobic training effect feedback. Recovery time helps you maximise the benefit of your efforts by predicting when you will be ready for your next tough challenge. You can even view your overall training load, which measures your exercise volume from the last 7 days and compares it to the optimal range for your fitness and recent training history. And — new for Forerunner 945 — training load focus sorts your recent training history into different categories based on activity structure and intensity.

An easier way to pay
The Forerunner 945 GPS smartwatch features Garmin Pay, which lets you pay for purchases with your watch. Use it just about anywhere you can tap your card to pay. Now you can leave your wallet behind without missing out on that post-run caffè latte. Just tap and go.

Maps on your wrist
Whether you're running the city streets or riding densely covered trails, Forerunner 945 provides built-in mapping to help keep you on track. Full-colour mapping comes preloaded with map data optimised for at-a-glance navigation and location tracking. And the device also features Trendline™ popularity routing, which uses billions of miles of Garmin Connect™ data to help you find and follow the best trails and routes.

Stay connected and secure
With Forerunner 945, you can head out for a training session without being out of touch. Once paired with your compatible smartphone, you'll be able to receive text messages and see social media updates, emails and more right on your wrist. Safety and tracking features make it easy to share your location with chosen contacts in case you need assistance — manually or automatically with built-in incident detection.

Track more than ever before
For such a lightweight watch, you'll be surprised by everything Forerunner 945 can track. It features multinetwork (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) satellite reception to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone. It features wrist-based heart rate4 and a wrist-based Pulse Ox sensor5 which monitors blood oxygen saturation levels to support advanced sleep monitoring and altitude acclimation.

Workouts and training plans
Whether you're training for a marathon or something even longer, create your own custom workouts, or download free ones that sync right to your watch. Forerunner 945 also supports Garmin Coach adaptive training plans. These plans feature guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals. It's a foolproof way to get to the finish line. As part of your training plan, it can even help you predict your race time.

Analyse your running form
The Forerunner 945 GPS smartwatch also has the tools you need to improve your running form. The watch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, vertical oscillation and vertical ratio. These measurements are the key to understanding your form, so you can bring your best on every run and at every race. Your Forerunner 945 can start tracking these metrics with the addition of a compatible heart rate strap or the compact Running Dynamics Pod, which clips right onto your waistband.

Run, sprint, swim, bike, tri
Change things up with ease, thanks to built-in activity profiles for running (indoor/outdoor), cycling (indoor/outdoor), swimming (pool/open water), cross-country skiing, paddle sports, trail running and many more. Forerunner 945 even has an auto multisport feature that lets you switch sports with a single button press for brick workouts and du/triathlon races.

A few more extras
Forerunner 945 is still an exceptional smartwatch for everything that happens between races and training sessions. All-day activity tracking keeps tabs on your steps and calories and even provides advanced sleep monitoring. For endless personalisation options, Forerunner 945 is compatible with the Connect IQ™ Store, where you can download free apps, widgets and data fields. Check out the Running Power app, which lets you see your running power in real time — as well as after your run.

1 When paired with a compatible smartphone. May require premium subscription with a third-party music provider
2 View current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information at Garmin.com/GarminPay/banks
3 When paired with a compatible smartphone.
4 Activity tracking accuracy.
5 This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries

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General
Lens material	Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
Bezel material	fibre-reinforced polymer
QuickFit™ watch band compatible	Yes (22 mm)
Strap material	silicone
Physical size	47 x 47 x 13.7 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm
Display size	1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter
Display resolution	240 x 240 pixels
Display type	sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
Weight	50 g
Battery life	Smartwatch mode: up to 2 weeks GPS mode with music: up to 10 hours GPS mode without music: Up to 36 hours
Water rating	5 ATM
Colour display
Memory/history	200 hours of activity data

Clock features
Time/date	Yes
GPS time sync
Automatic daylight saving time
Alarm clock
Timer
Stopwatch
Sunrise/sunset times

Sensors
GPS
GLONASS
Galileo
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
Barometric altimeter
Compass
Gyroscope
Accelerometer
Thermometer
Pulse Ox

Daily smart features
Connectivity	Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
Smart notifications
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™only)
Calendar
Weather
Controls smartphone music
Plays and controls watch music
Music storage	Up to 1,000 songs
Find my phone
Find my watch
VIRB® camera remote
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone®, Android™
Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
Garmin Pay™

Safety and tracking features
Incident Detection during select activities	Yes (Smartphone required)
Assistance	Yes (Smartphone required)
LiveTrack
Group LiveTrack
Live Event Sharing	Android™ Only

Activity tracking features
Step counter
Move bar (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)
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)
Calories burned
Floors climbed
Distance travelled
Intensity minutes
TrueUp™
Move IQ™
Fitness age	Yes (in app)
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor
All-day stress tracking

Fitness equipment/gym
Available gym activity profiles	Strength, cardio and elliptical training, stair stepping, indoor rowing and yoga
Cardio workouts
Strength workouts
Automatic rep counting

Training, planning and analysis features
GPS speed and distance
Customisable screen(s)
Customisable activity profiles
Auto Pause®
Interval training
Advanced workouts
Downloadable training plans
Auto Lap®
Manual lap
Configurable lap alerts
Heat and altitude acclimation
VO2 max
Training status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend)
Training load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC)
Training load focus
Training effect (aerobic)
Training effect (anaerobic)
Primary benefit (Training Effect labels)
Customisable alerts
Audio prompts
Finish time
Virtual partner
Race an activity
Auto multisport activities
Multi-sport
Course guidance
Segments (Live, Garmin)
Strava features (Beacon, live segments)
Round-trip course creator (running/cycling)
Trendline™ popularity routing
Touch and/or button lock
Hot keys
Auto scroll
Activity history on watch
Physio TrueUp

Heart rate features
HR zones
HR alerts
HR calories
% HR max
% HRR
Recovery time
Auto max HR
HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Records heart rate while swimming	Yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)
HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices)
Respiration rate (during exercise)	Yes (with compatible accessory)

Running features
Available run profiles	Running, indoor track running, treadmill running, trail running
GPS-based distance, time and pace
Running dynamics	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Stride length (real time)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Run workouts
Race predictor
Foot pod capable

Golfing features
Preloaded with 41,000 courses worldwide
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
Yardage to layups/doglegs
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)	Automatic
Digital scorecard
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
Garmin AutoShot™
Auto CourseView updates
Green View with manual pin position
Hazards and course targets
TruSwing™ compatible
Round timer/odometer

Outdoor recreation features
Available outdoor recreation profiles	Hiking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, XC skiing, stand-up paddleboarding, rowing, kayaking
Point-to-point navigation
Breadcrumb trail in real time
Back to start
TracBack®
UltraTrac mode
Around Me mode
Elevation profile
Distance to destination
Barometric trend indicator with storm alert
ClimbPro™ ascent planner
Trail run auto climb
Vertical speed
Total ascent/descent
Future elevation plot
Preloaded topographical maps
Downloadable cartography support
Compatible with BaseCamp™
GPS coordinates
Projected waypoint
Sight 'N Go
Area calculation	Yes (via Connect IQ™)
Hunt/fish calendar	Yes (via Connect IQ™)
Sun and moon information	Yes (via Connect IQ™)
Dual grid coordinates
XERO™ Locations

Cycling features
Available cycling profiles	Biking, indoor biking, mountain biking
Courses
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)
Race an activity
Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
FTP (Functional threshold power)	Yes (with compatible accessory)
Garmin cycle map (routable cycling-specific street map)
Compatible with Vector™ (power meter)
Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+™-enabled power meters)
Advanced Vector support
Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display)
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
Compatible with Varia™ lights
Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor)	yes

Swimming features
Available swim profiles	Pool swimming, open water swimming
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly)
Swim efficiency (SWOLF)
Drill logging
Pool swim workouts
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, calories)
Heart rate (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim)	Yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)

Connectivity
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone®, Android™