Garmin Forerunner® 965 Running Smartwatch, Colorful AMOLED Display, Training Metrics and Recovery Insights, Black and Powder

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars | 541 ratings

Price: 499.99

Last update: 09-09-2024


About this item

Brilliant AMOLED touchscreen display with traditional button controls and lightweight titanium bezel
Battery life: up to 23 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, up to 31 hours in GPS mode
Confidently run any route using full-color, built-in maps and multi-band GPS
Training readiness score is based on sleep quality, recovery, training load and HRV status to determine if you’re primed to go hard and reap the rewards (data presented is intended to be a close estimation of metrics tracked)
Plan race strategy with personalized daily suggested workouts based on the race and course that you input into the Garmin Connect app and then view the race widget on your watch; daily suggested workouts adapt after every run to match performance and recovery
Switch between sports with a button press by using built-in profiles for triathlons, duathlons, brick workouts and swimruns — or customize your own multisport profiles
Using indicators such as HRV status, recent exercise history and performance, get insight into overall effort with training status — and know whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained (data presented is intended to be a close estimation of metrics tracked)
As soon as you wake up, get your morning report with an overview of sleep, recovery and training outlook alongside HRV status, training readiness and weather (data presented is intended to be a close estimation of metrics tracked)
Multi-band GNSS with SatIQ technology provides superior accuracy in challenging environments while also optimizing the device’s battery life
Get wrist-based running dynamics, including cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more, plus wrist-based running power, which gives you a continuous measurement of how much power you’re applying to the road

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Top reviews from the United States

Pplay70448
5.0 out of 5 stars Quite the upgrade from my 920XT !
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2024
Pretty quick learning curve to pick up 75% of the features that you'll use on a daily basis. Lots of customization available to arrange the functions and data to your liking . The other 25% of features in there you'll either not need, or can just dive into later! Beautiful colorful well-lit display. Lots of nice watch faces to scroll through depending on your mood and more are downloadable. Super battery life so far ! Wrist-based HR monitor is accurate when I compare it to the data from my chest strap. Only complaint is the crystal seems to be a magnet for scratches. Wish i would've purchased a screen protector because I already have a few small scratches. But really only visible if you're LOOKING for them, otherwise love my new Garmin! It's motivating me to fill it with workout data!
Darren
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy once, cry once-have one of the best watches out there.
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
If you're going to buy a Garmin, spend the extra money for the FR965. This thing is a beast. The battery lasts forever. Like literally a month. It seems to be pretty accurate outdoors. The treadmill stuff takes some pretty significant calibration but I don't mind that. It's durable. I scratch watches up regularly and I've had this watch for nearly 6 months and the screen is still flawwless and I haven't babied it at all.
bayareakirk
5.0 out of 5 stars Best fitness watch ever
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2023
I have the FR945 and this FR965
is better in every way. The most obvious is the screen. It is OLED, full color, bright, and responds to touch. Unlike the 945. But also:
The App is improved.
The accuracy of many recorded parameters is improved. Sleep is one example (it is better at detecting wake and sleep and types of sleep and it can record naps. And it gives a "morning report" of all sleep and other health paameters.
It charges very fast.
The screen is highly customizable.
The list of improvements goes on and on, even beyond what they advertise.
Tomasthanes
5.0 out of 5 stars Nearly the perfect workout/health tracking wearable
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2023
I moved to this watch from a Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar which I loved for the exercise/health tracking, sensors, and battery life *except* for the "sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel" screen which works great in bright sunlight and not so much everywhere else.

This watch brings forward everything you like about the functionality of the 955 and add replaces the funky "MIP" screen with AMOLED while still having such a great battery life that it puts to shame the Apple Watch and WearOS watches.

The only thing I wish Garmin would add to their watches is a utility to bring the settings forward from an older watch in a series ("Forerunner" or "Fenix") to a newer watch in that same series. I've suggested this to them.

Altogether I am completely happy with this watch but expect to spend about a week fine tuning the display settings to get that longer battery life. I started with Always On and almost immediately moved away from that.

UPDATE (7/6): I received the watch on June 26th and immediately topped off the battery (it arrived with the battery in the mid-90's). It's July 6th (10 days later) and the battery is at 44% with an estimated duration of another 10 days. That's 21 days of battery life. I'm very satisfied with that. This is why I'm never, ever tempted to order a WearOS, Samsung, or Apple watch.

BTW, like all Garmin watches, it works great with the (Android) Garmin Connect app and gives you access to more data analysis in the app than on the watch.
Cheval
5.0 out of 5 stars Great accuracy!
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2023
I love this watch! I upgraded from a Forerunner 935 and the accuracy of the 965 is so much better.

I'm not a huge fan of the screen going dark, so I set it to always on. This, of course, shortens the battery life, but I don't mind that too much.

What bothers me the most is I can't see seconds all the time. I have to flick my wrist every 15 seconds or so to see the seconds come up. This doesn't sound like much to many people, but if you have to check heart rates all day, that gets old super fast. They can show my HR all the time, why not seconds.

The sleep tracking is pretty good, but sometimes it gets confused about when I'm sleeping or not. One day I was just playing video games for most of the day. Chilling after a long hard run, you know how you do. Anyway, it thought I had gone to sleep. haha. And it doesn't like it too well if I get up 2 or 3 times for an hour at a time in the night if I need to tend to a sick or injured animal. But for most regular nights, sleep tracking seems to work.

Other than that, not too much to complain about. It's a nice watch and works well in my use cases for trail running and long distance horseback riding.
James L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great fitness tracker
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024
No complaints!!
The battery life, ease of use and quality is amazing!
LWS
1.0 out of 5 stars Returned without wearing or setup!
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2024
My Garmin 965 arrived in a dented box which had clearly been opened and returned before I received it. The watch was missing the charging port cover which prevents salt water and sweat from the device. The box did not have the clear tape factory seal that Garmin told me should have been on the outer box. It had clearly been returned by someone else. I returned it the day after opening the package. I’ll buy it locally, tomorrow.
I’ve had great success with both the Garmin 910XT and 935, so I won’t be changing brands, just getting what I paid for.
WS
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the upgrade
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2023
I am an avid runner and have always loved my Garmins. I had the Garmin Forerunner 745 for a while and had been looking to upgrade for a while, but was never satisfied with the upgrade. Until the Forerunner 965. It has all the features that I want as a runner, swimmer, hiker. The display is indeed amazing. I love the map feature as well which is a real upgrade from the 745. The battery life is incredible. I run 4-5 times per week for at least 45 minutes and swim once per week and the battery last almost 2 weeks. The only problem with that is that I can never remember where I left the charger cable ;-)

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