Forerunner® 945
Black Watch Only
The Forerunner® 945 is a premium running watch that features music streaming, music storage, performance monitoring features such as VO2 max and much more.
General |
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Lens Material |
Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX |
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Bezel Material |
fiber-reinforced polymer |
QuickFit™ watch band compatible |
yes (22 mm compatible) |
Strap material |
silicone |
Physical size |
47 x 47 x 13.7 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 130-220 mm |
Color display | |
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 |
Memory/History | 200 hours of activity data |
Clock Features |
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Time/date | |
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GPS Time Sync | |
Automatic daylight saving time | |
Alarm clock | |
Timer | |
Stopwatch | |
Sunrise/sunset times |
Health Monitoring |
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Wrist-based Heart Rate (constant, every second) | |
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Daily Resting Heart Rate | |
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | yes (high and low) |
Respiration rate (24x7) | |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep) |
Fitness Age | yes (in app) |
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor | |
All-day Stress | |
Relaxation breathing timer | |
Sleep | yes (Advanced) |
Sleep score and insights | |
Hydration | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Woman's Health | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Sensors |
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GPS | |
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GLONASS | |
Galileo | |
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | |
Barometric altimeter | |
Compass | |
Gyroscope | |
Accelerometer | |
Thermometer | |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor |
Daily Smart Features |
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Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® |
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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 1000 songs |
Find My Phone | |
Find My Watch | |
VIRB® Remote | |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | |
Garmin Pay™ |
Safety and Tracking Features |
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LiveTrack | |
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Group LiveTrack | |
Live Event Sharing | Android™ Only |
Incident Detection during select activities | |
Assistance |
Tactical Features |
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Dual grid coordinates |
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Activity Tracking Features |
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Step counter | |
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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) | |
Calories burned | |
Floors climbed | |
Distance traveled | |
Intensity minutes | |
TrueUp™ | |
Move IQ™ |
Gym & Fitness Equipment |
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Available gym activity profiles | Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates and Yoga |
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Cardio workouts | |
Strength workouts | |
Yoga workouts | |
Pilates workouts | |
Automatic rep counting |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features |
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HR zones | |
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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) |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) | yes (using ANT+ or BLE) |
Respiration rate (during exercise) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
GPS speed and distance | |
Customizable data pages | |
Customizable activity profiles | |
Auto Pause® | |
Interval training | |
Advanced workouts | |
Downloadable training plans | |
Auto Lap® | |
Manual lap | |
Configurable lap alerts | |
Heat and altitude acclimation | |
VO2 Max (Run) | |
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 | |
Training Effect (anaerobic) | |
Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) | |
Custom alerts | |
Audio prompts | |
Finish time | |
Virtual Partner | |
Race an Activity | |
Auto multisport activities | |
Manual multisport activities | |
Course guidance | |
Garmin Live Segments | |
Strava 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 |
Running Features |
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Available run profiles |
Running, Indoor and Outdoor Track Running, Treadmill Running, Trail Running, Virtual Running |
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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) |
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies | |
Run workouts | |
Race predictor | |
Foot pod capable |
Golfing Features |
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Preloaded with 42,000 courses worldwide | |
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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 |
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Available outdoor recreation profiles |
Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking |
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Point-to-point navigation | |
Bread crumb 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 | |
Preloaded road and trail maps | |
Downloadable cartography support | |
Compatible with BaseCamp™ | |
GPS coordinates | |
Area calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Hunt/fish calendar | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Projected waypoint | |
Sun and moon information | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
XERO™ Locations |
Cycling Features |
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Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | |
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Courses | |
Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map) | |
Available cycling profiles |
Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Trail Biking |
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | |
Race an activity | |
FTP (Functional Threshold Power) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
Compatible with Vector™ (power meter) | |
Power meter compatible | |
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 |
yes |
Swimming Features |
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Available swim profiles |
Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimrun |
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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 only) | |
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-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™) |
Kid Activity Tracking Features |
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Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app | yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
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Watch Only
- Forerunner 945 GPS watch
- Charging cable
- Documentation
Tri-bundle
- Forerunner 945 GPS watch
- 1 extra set bands (black)
- HRM-Tri™ monitor
- HRM-Swim™ monitor
- Quick release kit
- Charging cable
- Documentation
QuickFit® 22 Watch Bands
Vented Titanium Bracelet
OMR 65
HRM-Pro™
OMR 50
HRM-Swim™
OMR 55
Charging/ Data Cable (0.5 m)
OMR 12