Forerunner 265S Watch
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Forerunner 265S Watch offers bright AMOLED tracking, precise GPS, and smart health features for active days
What Our Gearhead® Experts Are Saying:
"This watch is perfect for smaller wrists but still has every feature I want. The AMOLED screen is easy to see on runs, battery lasts through big training days with music and GPS, and all the stats sync seamlessly to Garmin Connect. It’s light enough to wear all day—training or not."
Forerunner 265S Watch puts next-level fitness tracking, colorful visuals, and reliable GPS on your wrist in a sleek, lightweight package. The AMOLED touchscreen stays visible even in full sun, while Corning Gorilla Glass keeps it tough through every workout or trail day. Multi-sport tracking, music storage, wellness snapshots, and advanced GNSS deliver precise metrics and health insights, making PRs and daily movement easier to follow and improve. With waterproof durability, on-wrist navigation, and battery that holds up for days, it's a powerful companion for every sport and recovery session.
Details
- Lightweight, durable sport watch with advanced sensors and AMOLED display
- Multi-band GNSS and GPS for accurate activity tracking on any adventure
- Corning Gorilla Glass 3 increases touch and scratch resistance
- Waterproof up to 50m for pool, open-water swims, and outdoor durability
- Music, notifications, heart rate, and training plans on your wrist
- Syncs wirelessly to Garmin Connect for seamless health insights
- Custom alerts, coaching, and full-training plans support performance goals
- Small size fits wrists from 4.5–7 inches, comfortable for all-day wear
- Item #GRMF068
- Housing Material
- fiber-reinforced polymer
- Strap Material
- silicone
- Face Material
- Corning Gorilla Glass 3
- Movement
- digital, AMOLED Optional Always-On Mode, 360 x 360 pixels
- Pedometer
- yes
- Odometer
- yes
- Altimeter
- yes
- Barometer
- yes
- Heart Rate Monitor
- yes, wrist-based
- Technical Features
- Please see size chart for complete list of technical features.
- Wireless
- Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi
- Operating System
- Connect IQ, Garmin Connect
- Date Indicator
- yes
- Weekday Indicator
- yes
- Alarms
- alarm clock, goal achieved alerts
- Backlight
- yes
- Battery Type
- rechargeable lithium-ion
- Battery Life
- [smartwatch mode] 15 days, [GPS-only GNSS] 24hr, [SatIQ AutoSelect GNSS] 18hr, [all-systems GNSS + Multi-Band] 15hr, [GPS-only GNSS + music] 7.5hr, [SatIQ AutoSelect GNSS + music] 7hr, [All-Systems GNSS + Multi-Band + music] 6hr
- Low Battery Indicator
- yes
- Includes
- Forerunner 265S GPS watch, USB-C charging/data cable, documentation
- Claimed Weight
- 1.38oz
- Submersible
- 5ATM (up to 50m)
- Face Size
- [diameter] 28.1mm (1.1in)
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 1 year
- Activity
- running, cycling, swimming, skiing, snowboarding, nordic skiing, stand-up paddleboarding, rowing, training, yoga, ebiking, mountain biking, hiking, casual
Reviews
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Overall Rating
4.5 based on 191 ratings
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The product offers great performance, accuracy, and long battery life. Customers find the user-friendly interface, customizable settings, and tracking capabilities for various activities to be particularly useful. The watch is praised for its sleek and lightweight design, providing comfort during long activities. While a few customers experienced minor issues, the overall sentiment is overwhelmingly positive.
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Selecting an option will reload the available reviews on the pageOctober 26, 2025
love the watch
I updated my watch from the 245 to this and I love the new screen and extra features. Still love this watch works great and the battery lasts a while.
Originally reviewed on ExpertVoice.com
October 20, 2025
Love it
My girlfriend bought it for me because she has the same one and I love it
Originally reviewed on Garmin
October 12, 2025
Solid 245 upgrade
Absolutely loving this watch! I bought it around a year ago as a replacement to my 245. While I primarily use it for hiking and cycling, it’s on my wrist pretty much 24/7. Love the smaller face compared to the standard size. I’d recommend to anyone from walkers to marathoners. Great beginner interface with tons of data on sleep, menstrual cycles, and overall health!
Originally reviewed on ExpertVoice.com
October 11, 2025
No accurate for sleep & poor connection to iPhone
The garmin looks better than my Apple Watch but it’s very glitchy with the connection to my phone and often doesn’t display weather and other metrics. Texts don’t come through reliably either
Originally reviewed on Garmin
October 10, 2025
Bought as a second one just to have for swimming use and replacement. Great for running!
Originally reviewed on ExpertVoice.com
October 6, 2025
Great Feature
I bought this a month ago. Very nice watch qnd feature. The measurements are accurate. Also the garmin coach very nice.
Originally reviewed on Garmin
September 14, 2025
Love it
Great addition to my MTB kit. I have always shied away from wearing a watch, but the janky GPS signal from my phone when recording Strava made me consider a Garmin. Since I've gotten it, I've completely adopted it's functions into my life, and find great benefit from tracking my sleep quality, fitness metrics, HR, and more. It also serves as a great link to my phone, saving me the trouble of pulling out my phone every time I get a notification. Excellent product.
Originally reviewed on ExpertVoice.com
September 13, 2025
Great watch for running
The 265s has been extremely helpful and motivational in getting into a regular workout routine (from 0 to 3 workouts per week). The charts and metrics are helpful. Before I was always running race pace and not sticking with a set running plan. Now I use the running zones and try to stay in zone 2 or 1 for 80% of weekly workout plan so I get more running in and build up my endurance. Also, the watch allows you to setup interval runs and setup custom pace target ranges for your workout. For example on my easy run, I setup pace for 10 to 11 min per mile and it gives audible alerts in real time to you when going outside of target pace range while listening to offline music at same time. It also features a trainer program that builds a custom training plan for you based on an upcoming marathon, etc. The features I am using are barely breaking the surface of what is available on the watch. I rarely take time to write reviews but have been thoroughly impressed with this watch.
Originally reviewed on Garmin
September 11, 2025
Unreliable heart rate readings
I bought this as an upgrade to my FR45 and was excited for the brilliant screen and advanced features. Unfortunately, that excitement has been replaced with disappointment and annoyance. Two of the key features are complete fails: The optical heart rate and the Bluetooth headphone connection. Allow me to elaborate. The OHR is completely unreliable. During activities, it often displays a heart rate I know is grossly incorrect just from feel. Sometimes I'll take the watch off and immediately put it back on and the HR will jump up 10-20 beats in a matter of seconds. If I want HR with any degree of accuracy, I have to wear a chest strap, which is unfortunate. If you read the Garmin forums, there are many other users plagued by the inaccuracy of the OHR on this watch, and everyone is frustrated by it. Second issue is the Bluetooth connection to headphones randomly and repeatedly dropping. The main reason I bought this watch was for the music functionality (so I could leave my phone behind during runs), but it's so bad, it's useless. I have to run with either my phone or a separate MP3 player if I want to listen to music. If I had to do it all over, I would not have bought this watch.
Originally reviewed on Garmin
September 11, 2025
Wear it everyday
I have used this watch for triathalon, running, biking, paddling (the sup feature), pool and open water swimming and I love it! I think it’s a lot cuter/fits better as a “S” than the normal sized garmins. I like the white and teal too. Activity tracking seems accurate and it has way more metrics than I could ever want. I also like that it has tap to pay. I’ve never been able to set up the Spotify features, but I think that’s user error. The heart rate monitor is nice and it does a great job projecting heart rate to my bike computer (Garmin) and to my bike trainer (wahoo).
Originally reviewed on ExpertVoice.com
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