Quality by design
The rugged yet sophisticated design features a large 1.2-inch display and is tested to u.s. military standards for thermal, shock and water resistance.
Premium materials
Fit the look to your lifestyle with a stylish stainless steel bezel.
Push performance to a whole new level.
Sports apps
Use preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing, surfing, indoor climbing and more.
Backcountry ski
Stay informed when you’re in the snow. This preloaded profile can distinguish between skiing and climbing. It automatically shows metrics specific to either ascent or descent.
Mtb dynamics
Track the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics plus specialised grit and flow measurements that rate trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend, giving you a score to beat next time.
Surf-ready features
Get ready to catch some waves. Fēnix 6s solar works with surfline sessions™, which creates a video of every wave you ride in front of a surfline® camera, so you can watch them later and see how you did.
Animated workouts
This watch features easy-to-follow, animated cardio, strength, yoga and pilates workouts you can view on the watch screen. Choose from preloaded animated workouts, or download more from our garmin connect™ online community.
Wrist-based heart rate
Get heart rate data1 along with alerts if your heart rate stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities, even underwater.
Body battery™ energy monitor
Optimise your body’s energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you’re ready to be active or when you may need to rest.
Hydration tracking
Log daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated. When auto goal is enabled, you’ll even see estimated sweat loss after an activity, and your goal will adjust accordingly.
Menstrual cycle tracking
Use the garmin connect app to track your cycle, log physical and emotional symptoms and learn about training and nutrition during each phase of your cycle. Even get cycle tracking information on your wrist.
Performance metrics
View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics, recovery advisor and more1. Even estimate your heat- and altitude-adjusted vo2 max.
Pacepro™ technology
A first-of-its-kind pacepro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.
Power manager
View how various settings and sensors impact your watch’s battery life, so you can make battery-extending changes on the fly.
Solar-charged battery
Get up to 9 days of battery life while indoors or up to 10.5 days when solar charging3 in smartwatch mode. In gps mode, get 25 hours indoors or 28 hours when solar charging4.
You reach new heights. Your watch goes with you.
Climbpro feature
Use climbpro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.
Multi-gnss support
Access multiple global navigation satellite systems (gps, glonass and galileo) to track in more challenging environments than gps alone.
Abc sensors
Navigate your next trail with abc sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and three-axis electronic compass.
Pulse ox sensor
For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a pulse ox2 sensor uses light beams at your wrist to gauge how well your body is absorbing oxygen.
Acclimation
This widget shows your current elevation, acclimated elevation and correlated pulse ox2, heart rate1 and respiration rate, so you can see how you’re holding up to the current elevation.
Respiration tracking
See how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork and yoga activities.
Expedition mode
Trek far and wide between recharges. Expedition mode, an ultralow-powered gps reference, lasts for weeks.
You’ll feel a connection in more ways than one.
Smart notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible device.
Music apps
Store up to 2,000 songs, or access streaming apps from your compatible services including spotify®, deezer and amazon music, and listen through headphones with bluetooth® technology.
Garmin pay
Breeze through checkout lines with garmin pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
Safety and tracking features
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features5 send your location to emergency contacts.
Connect iq™ store
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the connect iq store.
General
Lens material power glass™
Bezel material stainless steel
Case material fibre-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover
Quickfit™ watch band compatible 20 mm band included
Strap material silicone
Physical size
42 x 42 x 14.2 mm
Fits wrists with the following circumference:
- Silicone band: 108-182 mm
- Suede band: 108-175 mm
- Fabric band: 108-189 mm
- Metal band: 108-180 mm
Colour display
Display size 1.2 inches, 30.4 mm diameter
Display resolution 240 x 240 pixels
Display type sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (mip)
Weight 60 g (case only: 44 g)
Battery life
Smartwatch: up to 9 days plus 1.5 days*
Gps: up to 25 hours plus 3 hours**
Max battery gps mode: 50 hours plus 14 hours**
Expedition gps activity: 20 days plus 6 days*
Battery saver watch mode: 34 days plus 25 days*
* solar charging, assuming all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions
** solar charging, assuming use in 50,000 lux conditions
Water rating 10 atm
Memory/history 64 mb
Clock features
Time/date yes
Gps time sync
Automatic daylight saving time
Alarm clock
Timer
Stopwatch
Sunrise/sunset times
Health monitoring
Fitness age yes (in app)
Body battery™ energy monitor
All-day stress tracking
Sleep
Sensors
Gps
Glonass
Galileo
Garmin elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
Barometric altimeter
Compass
Gyroscope
Accelerometer
Thermometer
Pulse ox blood oxygen saturation monitor yes (with acclimation)
Daily smart features
Connectivity bluetooth® smart, ant+®
Connect iq™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
Smart notifications
Text response/reject phone call with text (android™ only)
Calendar
Weather
Battery saver - customisable low power watch
Controls smartphone music
Find my phone
Find my watch
Virb® camera remote
Smartphone compatibility iphone®, android™
Compatible with garmin connect™ mobile
Garmin pay™
Safety and tracking features
Livetrack
Group livetrack
Live event sharing
Incident detection during select activities
Assistance
Tactical features
Dual grid coordinates
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)
Calories burned
Floors climbed
Distance travelled
Intensity minutes
Trueup™
Move iq™
Fitness equipment/gym
Available gym activity profiles strength, cardio and elliptical training, stair stepping, floor climbing, indoor rowing, pilates and yoga
Cardio workouts
Strength workouts
Yoga workouts
Pilates workouts
On-screen workout animations
Automatic rep counting
Training, planning and analysis 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)
Hr broadcast (broadcasts hr data over ant+™ to paired devices)
Gps speed and distance
Customisable screen(s)
Customisable activity profiles
Auto pause®
Interval training
Advanced workouts
Downloadable training plans
Power modes - customizable in-activity battery settings
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
Garmin live segments
Strava live segments
Touch and/or button lock
Hot keys
Auto scroll
Activity history on watch
Physio trueup
Running features
Available run profiles running, treadmill running, indoor track running, trail running, virtual 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)
Pacepro™ pacing strategies yes (with preloaded course)
Run workouts
Race predictor
Foot pod capable
Golfing features
Preloaded with 41k courses worldwide no (downloadable from phone)
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 yes
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
Pinpointer
Handicap scoring
Truswing™ compatible
Round timer/odometer
Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)
Outdoor recreation features
Available outdoor recreation profiles hiking, indoor and outdoor climbing, bouldering, surfing, mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, xc skiing, stand up paddleboarding, rowing, kayaking, jumpmaster, tactical
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 yes (with preloaded course)
Trail run auto climb
Vertical speed
Total ascent/descent
Future elevation plot yes (with preloaded course)
Compatible with basecamp™
Gps coordinates
Sight 'n go
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
Expedition gps activity
Tides yes (via connect iq™)
Cycling features
Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
Courses
Garmin cycle map (routable cycling-specific street map)
Available cycling profiles biking, indoor biking, mountain biking, triathlon
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
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 (ant+® and bluetooth® smart sensors)
Swimming features
Available swim profiles pool swimming, open water swimming, swimming/running
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)
Countdown start
Pool swim workouts
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™)
In the box
fēnix 6S Solar
Charging/data cable
Documentation