RUN WITH CONFIDENCE
Up-at-dawn runners and conditioned-for-pain triathletes, Garmin wants you to have peace of mind while you run, ride or swim. So leave your phone at home. The Garmin Forerunner® 945 LTE running watch has got your back.
- Leave your phone at home — on purpose. LTE connectivity1 has you covered.
- Put the perfect soundtrack right on your wrist.
- Packed with powerful performance metrics to help you train smarter.
- Easily pay for purchases2 using Garmin Pay™ with just a tap of your wrist.
- Explore more routes with guidance from full-color onboard maps.
- Get up to 7 hours of battery life in GPS mode with music and LTE LiveTrack.
SPECS
- Lens Material – Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
- Bezel Material – fiber-reinforced polymer
- QuickFit Watchband Compatible – yes (22 mm compatible)
- Strap Material – Silicone
- Physical Size – 44.4 x 44.4 x 13.9 mm
Fits wrists with a circumference of 128-218 mm
- Color Display – Yes
- Display Size – 1.2″ (30.4 mm) diameter
- Display Resolution – 240 x 240 pixels
- Display Type – sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
- Battery Life – Smartwatch Mode: Up to 2 weeks
GPS mode with music: Up to 12 hours
GPS mode with LTE LiveTrack: Up to 10 hours
GPS mode with music and LTE LiveTrack: Up to 7 hours
GPS mode without music: Up to 35 hours - Water Rating – 5 ATM
- Memory/History – 200 hours of activity data
Clock Features
- Time/Date – Yes
- GPS Time Sync – Yes
- Automatic Daylight Savings Time – Yes
- Alarm Clock – Yes
- Timer – Yes
- Stopwatch – Yes
- Sunrise/Sunset Times – Yes
Health Monitoring
- Wrist-based heart rate monitoring (constant/every second) – Yes
- Daily Resting Heart Rate – Yes
- Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts – Yes (high and low)
- Respiration Rate (24×7) – Yes
- Pulse Ox Blood Saturation Rate – yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)
- Fitness Age – Yes (in app)
- Body Battery Energy Monitor – Yes
- All Day Stress – Yes
- Relaxation Reminders – Yes
- Relaxation Breathing Timers – Yes
- Sleep – Yes (Advanced )
- Sleep Score and Insights – Yes
- Hydration – yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
- Women’s Health – yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget)
Sensors
- GPS – Yes
- Glonass – Yes
- Galileo – Yes
- b- Yes
- Barometric Altimeter – Yes
- Compass – Yes
- Gyroscope – Yes
- Accelerometer – Yes
- Thermometer – Yes
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor – Yes
Daily Smart Features
- Connectivity – Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®, LTE (with subscription)
- Smart Notifications – Yes
- TEXT RESPONSE/REJECT PHONE CALL WITH TEXT (ANDROID™ ONLY) – Yes
- Calender – Yes
- Weather – Yes
- Controls Smartphone Music – Yes
- Plays and Controls Watch Music – Yes
- Music Storage – Up to 1000 songs
- Find My Phone – Yes
- Find My Watch – Yes
- VIRB® REMOTE – Yes
- Smartphone Compatibility – iPhone®, Android™
- Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile – Yes
- Garmin Pay™ – Yes
Safety and Tracking Features
- Livetrack – Yes
- Spectator Messaging – yes (with LTE subscription)
- Group Livetrack – Yes
- Live Event Sharing – Yes
- Incident Detection During Select Activities – Yes
- Assistance – Yes
Tactical Features
- Dual Grip Coordinates – Yes
Activity Tracking Features
- Step Counter – Yes
- MOVE BAR (DISPLAYS ON DEVICE AFTER A PERIOD OF INACTIVITY; WALK FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES TO RESET IT) – Yes
- Yes – AUTO GOAL (LEARNS YOUR ACTIVITY LEVEL AND ASSIGNS A DAILY STEP GOAL)
- 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
- Available Gym Activity Profiles – Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Breathwork, Pilates and Yoga
- Cardio Workouts – Yes
- Strength Workouts – Yes
- Yoga Workouts – Yes
- Pilates Workouts – Yes
- Automatic Rep Counting – Yes
Training, Planning, and Analysis Features
- HR Zones – Yes
- HR Alerts – Yes
- HR Calories – Yes
- % HR Max – Yes
- % HRR – Yes
- Recovery Time – Yes
- Auto Max HR – Yes
- 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
- Respiration Rate (During Exercise) – yes (with compatible accessory)
- GPS Speed and Distance – Yes
- Customizable Data Pages – 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
- Downloadable Training Plans – Yes
- AutoLap® – Yes
- Manual Lap – Yes
- Configurable Lap Alerts – Yes
- Heat and Altitude Acclimation – Yes
- VO2 Max Run – Yes
- TRAINING STATUS (LETS YOU SEE IF YOU’RE TRAINING EFFECTIVELY BY TRACKING YOUR TRAINING HISTORY AND FITNESS LEVEL TREND.) – Yes
- TRAINING LOAD (YOUR TOTAL TRAINING LOAD FOR THE LAST 7 DAYS CALCULATED FROM ESTIMATED EPOC) – Yes
- Training Load Focus – Yes
- Training Effect – Yes
- Training Effect (Anaerobic) – Yes
- Primary Benefit (Training Effect Labels) – Yes
- Improved Recovery Time – Yes
- Daily Suggested Workouts – 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
- Course Guidance – Yes
- Garmin Live Segments – Yes
- Strava Live Segments – Yes
- Round Trip Course Creator (Running/Cycling) – Yes
- Trendline™ Popularity Routing – Yes
- Touch And/Or Button Lock – Yes
- Hot Keys – Yes
- Auto Scroll – Yes
- Activity History on Watch – Yes
- Physio TrueUp – Yes
Running Features
| AVAILABLE RUN PROFILES | Running, Indoor and Outdoor Track Running, Treadmill Running, Trail Running, Virtual Running, Ultra Running |
|---|---|
| GPS-BASED DISTANCE, TIME AND PACE | yes |
| 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) | yes |
| PERFORMANCE CONDITION (AFTER RUNNING 6–20 MINUTES, COMPARES YOUR REAL-TIME CONDITION TO YOUR AVERAGE FITNESS LEVEL) | yes |
| 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 | yes |
| RUN WORKOUTS | yes |
| RACE PREDICTOR | yes |
| FOOT POD CAPABLE | yes |
Golfing Features | |
| PRELOADED WITH 42,000 COURSES WORLDWIDE | yes |
|---|---|
| YARDAGE TO F/M/B (DISTANCE TO FRONT, MIDDLE AND BACK OF GREEN) | yes |
| YARDAGE TO LAYUPS/DOGLEGS | yes |
| MEASURES SHOT DISTANCE (CALCULATES EXACT YARDAGE FOR SHOTS FROM ANYWHERE ON COURSE) | Automatic |
| DIGITAL SCORECARD | yes |
| STAT TRACKING (STROKES, PUTTS PER ROUND, GREENS AND FAIRWAYS HIT) | yes |
| GARMIN AUTOSHOT™ | yes |
| AUTO COURSEVIEW UPDATES | yes |
| GREEN VIEW WITH MANUAL PIN POSITION | yes |
| HAZARDS AND COURSE TARGETS | yes |
| PINPOINTER | yes |
| HANDICAP SCORING | yes |
| TRUSWING™ COMPATIBLE | yes |
| ROUND TIMER/ODOMETER | yes |
Outdoor Recreation | |
| AVAILABLE OUTDOOR RECREATION PROFILES | Hiking, Climbing, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking |
|---|---|
| POINT-TO-POINT NAVIGATION | yes |
| BREAD CRUMB TRAIL IN REAL TIME | yes |
| BACK TO START | yes |
| TRACBACK® | yes |
| ULTRATRAC MODE | yes |
| AROUND ME MODE | yes |
| ELEVATION PROFILE | yes |
| DISTANCE TO DESTINATION | yes |
| BAROMETRIC TREND INDICATOR WITH STORM ALERT | yes |
| CLIMBPRO™ ASCENT PLANNER | yes |
| TRAIL RUN AUTO CLIMB | yes |
| VERTICAL SPEED | yes |
| TOTAL ASCENT/DESCENT | yes |
| FUTURE ELEVATION PLOT | yes |
| PRELOADED TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS | yes |
| PRELOADED ROAD AND TRAIL MAPS | yes |
| DOWNLOADABLE CARTOGRAPHY SUPPORT | yes |
| COMPATIBLE WITH BASECAMP™ | yes |
| GPS COORDINATES | yes |
| AREA CALCULATION | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| HUNT/FISH CALENDAR | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| PROJECTED WAYPOINT | yes |
| SUN AND MOON INFORMATION | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| XERO™ LOCATIONS | yes |
Cycling Features | |
| ALERTS (TRIGGERS ALARM WHEN YOU REACH GOALS INCLUDING TIME, DISTANCE, HEART RATE OR CALORIES) | yes |
|---|---|
| COURSES | yes |
| CYCLE MAP (ROUTABLE CYCLING-SPECIFIC STREET MAP) | yes |
| MTB GRIT & FLOW | yes |
| AVAILABLE CYCLING PROFILES | Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Trail Biking, eBiking, eMountain Trail Biking |
| BIKE LAP AND LAP MAXIMUM POWER (WITH POWER SENSOR) | yes |
| RACE AN ACTIVITY | yes |
| FTP (FUNCTIONAL THRESHOLD POWER) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
| COMPATIBLE WITH VECTOR™ (POWER METER) | yes |
| POWER METER COMPATIBLE | yes |
| ADVANCED VECTOR SUPPORT | yes |
| COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA VISION™ (HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY) | yes |
| COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA™ RADAR (REAR-FACING RADAR) | yes |
| COMPATIBLE WITH VARIA™ LIGHTS | yes |
| SPEED AND CADENCE SENSOR SUPPORT (W/SENSOR) | yes |
Swimming Features | |
| AVAILABLE SWIM PROFILES | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swim running |
|---|---|
| OPEN-WATER SWIM METRICS (DISTANCE, PACE, STROKE COUNT/RATE, STROKE DISTANCE, SWIM EFFICIENCY (SWOLF), CALORIES) | yes |
| POOL SWIM METRICS (LENGTHS, DISTANCE, PACE, STROKE COUNT, SWIM EFFICIENCY (SWOLF), CALORIES) | yes |
| STROKE TYPE DETECTION (FREESTYLE, BACKSTROKE, BREASTSTROKE, BUTTERFLY) (POOL SWIM ONLY) | yes |
| DRILL LOGGING (POOL SWIM ONLY) | yes |
| BASIC REST TIMER (UP FROM 0) (POOL SWIM ONLY) | yes |
| “REPEAT ON” REST TIMER (POOL SWIM ONLY) | yes |
| AUTO REST (POOL SWIM ONLY) | yes |
| TIME AND DISTANCE ALERTS | yes |
| PACING ALERTS (POOL SWIM ONLY) | yes |
| COUNTDOWN START (POOL SWIM ONLY) | yes |
| POOL SWIM WORKOUTS | yes |
| CRITICAL SWIM SPEEDyes | yes |
| UNDERWATER WRIST-BASED HEART RATE | yes |
| 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 | |
| TOE-TO-TOE™ CHALLENGES APP | yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
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