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Get the Garmin Forerunner® 165 with extra charging accessories included FREE, making it easier to stay powered at home, at your desk, and on the road.
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Step up to the starting line with the Garmin Forerunner® 165 Music, an easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch designed to help athletes of all skill levels reach their goals. Whether you are aiming to complete your first 5K or crush a new personal record, this vibrant, feature-packed watch delivers essential training tools, personalized guidance, and phone-free music right to your wrist.
Vibrant 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with a traditional 5-button design
Phone-free music storage for up to 500 songs (Spotify®, Deezer, or Amazon Music)
Built-in GPS with wrist-based heart rate, pace, and distance tracking
Up to 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode
Personalized adaptive training plans and Garmin Coach support
Real-time running power, cadence, and stride length metrics directly from the wrist
24/7 health and wellness tracking, including sleep and stress monitoring
The Garmin Forerunner® 165 Music is the ultimate running companion, engineered to blend everyday smartwatch convenience with powerful performance tracking. Designed for runners who want to train smarter and listen to their favorite playlists on the go, it features a stunning, easy-to-read AMOLED touchscreen paired with Garmin’s trusted 5-button traditional design. With continuous wrist-based heart rate monitoring, built-in GPS for accurate pace and distance, and integrated music storage, this watch ensures you have everything you need to light up your run and stay connected without carrying your phone.
Beyond the basics, the Forerunner® 165 Music excels at delivering personalized, data-driven insights to optimize your performance and recovery. It provides Race Adaptive Training Plans, daily suggested workouts that adapt to your progress, and PacePro™ technology for grade-adjusted pacing guidance. Between workouts, it functions as a comprehensive 24/7 wellness tracker - monitoring your sleep, stress, and recovery time, so you always know when your body is primed for peak performance. Paired with audio prompts and smart notifications, it keeps you on pace and in touch every step of the way.

This easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch provides the essential features you need to take your running to the next level — including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate.

Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar.

Get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans from expert coaches to help you take on a new challenge.

Get ready for your race with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on race details you enter into Garmin Connect.

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.

Receive an overview of your sleep1 and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see.

With training effect, you can see how your workouts impact your fitness and understand the primary benefit from training runs and workouts.
Brilliant AMOLED Touchscreen: View your training stats, recovery insights, and smart notifications in stunning detail on a vibrant 1.2-inch full-color AMOLED display.
Phone-Free Music Storage: Easily download up to 500 songs directly to your watch. Connect your BLUETOOTH® wireless headphones and enjoy playlists from your Spotify®, Deezer, or Amazon Music accounts without needing your phone.
Audio Prompts: Stay focused on your stride with audio performance alerts and guided workouts delivered directly through your connected wireless headphones.
Wrist-Based Running Dynamics: Improve your form by measuring crucial metrics like running power, cadence, stride length, and ground contact time directly from your wrist—no extra accessories required.
Race Adaptive Training Plans: Input your race details into the Garmin Connect™ app to receive personalized daily suggested workouts, completion time predictions, and tailored training tips.
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies: Plan your ideal race day strategy with grade-adjusted pacing guidance based on your course's elevation and your personal pacing preferences.
Comprehensive Wellness Monitoring: Track your body’s overall well-being around the clock with continuous wrist-based heart rate, stress tracking, sleep monitoring, and Pulse Ox tracking.
Training Effect & Recovery Time: Understand exactly how your workouts are improving your fitness and receive estimated recovery times so you know precisely when your body is ready for your next hard run.
Impressive Battery Life: Spend more time training and less time charging with up to 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, and up to 7 hours in GPS-only mode with music playing.
Smart Notifications: Pair the watch with your compatible iPhone® or Android™ smartphone to receive emails, texts, and alerts right on your wrist for life on the go.
Connect IQ™ Store Compatible: Customize your watch to fit your style by downloading new watch faces, data fields, and apps directly from the Connect IQ Store.
| What You'll Love | |
| Sleep score and insights | ✓ |
|---|---|
| Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 11 days |
| Pulse Ox blood oxygen | yes (spot-check, during sleep, all day) |
| Garmin Pay™ | ✓ |
| Display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
| Touchscreen | ✓ |
| Water rating | 5 ATM |
| General | |
| Strap material | silicone |
| Lens Material | chemically strengthened glass |
| Bezel Material | fiber-reinforced polymer |
| Quick Release bands | yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Physical size | 43 x 43 x 11.6 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 126-203 mm |
| Weight | 39 g |
| Display Size | 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 390 x 390 pixels |
| Color display | ✓ |
| Large font option | ✓ |
| Battery type | Lithium ion |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 20 days GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 19 hours All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours |
| Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
| Memory/History | 4 GB |
| Clock Features | |
| Time/date | ✓ |
| GPS Time Sync | ✓ |
| Automatic daylight saving time | ✓ |
| Alarm clock | ✓ |
| Timer | ✓ |
| Stopwatch | ✓ |
| Sunrise/sunset times | ✓ |
| Health & Wellness Monitoring | |
| Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | ✓ |
| Resting heart rate | ✓ |
| Abnormal heart rate alerts | yes (high and low) |
| Respiration rate | ✓ |
| Fitness age | ✓ |
| Body Battery™ energy monitor | ✓ |
| All-day stress | ✓ |
| Relaxation reminders | ✓ |
| Relaxation breathing timer | ✓ |
| Breathwork | ✓ |
| Sleep | yes (advanced) |
| Breathing variations | ✓ |
| Nap detection | ✓ |
| Hydration | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Women's health | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Health snapshot | ✓ |
| Sensors | |
| GPS | ✓ |
| GLONASS | ✓ |
| Galileo | ✓ |
| Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | ✓ |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor | ✓ |
| Barometric altimeter | ✓ |
| Compass | ✓ |
| Accelerometer | ✓ |
| Thermometer | ✓ |
| Ambient light sensor | ✓ |
| Daily Smart Features | |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+® |
| Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps) | ✓ |
| On-device Connect IQ™ Store | ✓ |
| Smart Notifications | ✓ |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | ✓ |
| View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only) | ✓ |
| Morning report | ✓ |
| Calendar | ✓ |
| Weather forecasts | ✓ |
| Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile | ✓ |
| Battery saver (customizable low power watch) | ✓ |
| Controls smartphone music | ✓ |
| Find My Phone | ✓ |
| Find My Watch | ✓ |
| Find My Phone during GPS activity | ✓ |
| Compatible with Garmin Messenger app | ✓ |
| Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | ✓ |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
| Red shift mode | ✓ |
| Garmin Share | ✓ |
| Passcode | ✓ |
| Workout and Training Plans | |
| Daily Suggested Workout - Running (Pace and Heart Rate Based) | ✓ |
| Garmin Running Coach | yes (no strength add-on) |
| Garmin Running Coach Experts | ✓ |
| Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans | ✓ |
| Cardio workouts | ✓ |
| Strength workouts | ✓ |
| HIIT workouts | ✓ |
| Yoga workouts | ✓ |
| Pilates workouts | ✓ |
| Activity Profiles | |
| Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing |
| Wellness | Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking |
| Indoor running | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual Running |
| Outdoor running | Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Ultra Running |
| Outdoor recreation | Hiking |
| Cycling | Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Swim | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
| Racket sports | Tennis, Pickleball, Padel |
| Safety and Tracking Features | |
| Incident Detection during select activities | ✓ |
| Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | ✓ |
| Assistance | ✓ |
| Live Event Sharing | Android™ Only |
| Activity Tracking Features | |
| Step counter | ✓ |
| Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity) | ✓ |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | ✓ |
| Calories burned | ✓ |
| Floors climbed | ✓ |
| Distance traveled | ✓ |
| Intensity minutes | ✓ |
| TrueUp™ | ✓ |
| Move IQ™ | ✓ |
| Garmin Connect™ Challenges app | yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
| Automatic rep counting | ✓ |
| Training, Planning and Analysis Features | |
| Customizable data pages | ✓ |
| Downloadable training plans | ✓ |
| Course guidance | ✓ |
| HR zones | ✓ |
| HR alerts | ✓ |
| HR calories | ✓ |
| % HR max | ✓ |
| % HRR | ✓ |
| Recovery time | ✓ |
| Auto max HR | ✓ |
| Race glance/widget | ✓ |
| HRV status | ✓ |
| HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices) | ✓ |
| Respiration rate (during exercise) | Yoga and Breathwork only |
| GPS speed and distance | ✓ |
| Customizable activity profiles | ✓ |
| Auto Pause® automatic timer halt | ✓ |
| Interval training | ✓ |
| Advanced workouts | ✓ |
| HRM running pace and distance | ✓ |
| Auto Lap® interval tracking feature | ✓ |
| Manual lap | ✓ |
| Rest timer | ✓ |
| Configurable lap alerts | ✓ |
| VO2 Max (Run) | ✓ |
| VO2 Max (Trail Run) | ✓ |
| Training effect | ✓ |
| Training effect (anaerobic) | ✓ |
| Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) | ✓ |
| Voice alerts | ✓ |
| Finish time | ✓ |
| Touch and/or button lock | ✓ |
| Activity history on watch | ✓ |
| Physio TrueUp | ✓ |
| Running Features | |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | ✓ |
| Running dynamics | ✓ |
| Vertical oscillation and ratio | ✓ |
| Ground contact time and balance | yes (but not balance) |
| Stride length (real time) | ✓ |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | ✓ |
| Running power | ✓ |
| PacePro™ Pacing Strategies | ✓ |
| Run workouts | ✓ |
| Race predictor | ✓ |
| Course- and weather-specific race predictor | ✓ |
| Foot pod capable | ✓ |
| Run/Walk/Stand detection | ✓ |
| Outdoor Recreation | |
| Point-to-point navigation | ✓ |
| Bread crumb trail in real time | ✓ |
| Back to start | ✓ |
| TracBack® | ✓ |
| UltraTrac mode | ✓ |
| Elevation profile | ✓ |
| Distance to destination | ✓ |
| Total ascent/descent | ✓ |
| Rest Timer (Ultra Run only) | ✓ |
| Auto rest | ✓ |
| Future elevation plot | ✓ |
| Area calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Fish forecast | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Sun and moon information | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Cycling Features | |
| Courses | ✓ |
| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | ✓ |
| Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | ✓ |
| Compatible with Varia™ lights | ✓ |
| Compatible with Varia headlight camera | ✓ |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | ✓ |
| Swimming Features | |
| 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 | ✓ |
| Countdown start (pool swim only) | ✓ |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | ✓ |
| Kid Activity Tracking Features | |
| Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app | yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) |
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