Garmin Fenix 5S Watch for Watches

Get more from your workout with less on your wrist with the Garmin Fenix 5S Watch.

Premium smaller-sized (42 mm) multisport GPS watch with Elevate wrist heart rate technology.

Preloaded activity profiles for all of your sports and adventures.

Put key stats at your fingertips with the performance widget that shows the effects and progress of your workouts.

Connected features include smart notifications, automatic uploads to Garmin Connect online fitness community and personalization through free watch faces and apps from our Connect IQ store.

Outdoor sensors, including GPS and GLONASS satellite reception and 3-axis compass with gyroscope and barometric altimeter.

For serious athletes and adventurers who want to do more, not wear more – Fenix 5S is the perfect fit. It’s our premium multisport watch that offers full-size performance in a lighter, sleeker, more compact design. So you can beat yesterday with advanced features such as wrist-based heart rate, built-in activity profiles, navigation functions, and performance metrics that measure the effectiveness of your workout. It’s one smart sportwatch you can comfortably wear anywhere – office or outback – to keep pace with your active lifestyle.

Features

Striking Design, Strong Performance – Athletes and adventurers come in all sizes. That’s why the Fenix 5 series offers multiple models that vary in size to fit every wrist and every workout. Each version offers a variety of stainless steel finishes, QuickFit watch band combinations and premium feature sets to give you the look, performance and lightweight comfort to match both your aesthetic and athletic interests.

Dual Navigation Networks – Every Fenix 5 series watch features advanced GPS and GLONASS satellite reception to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone. You can count on long battery life in each mode of operation (varies by model, depending on settings). And for go-anywhere confidence, all Fenix 5versions are water-rated to 100 meters.

Outstanding Readability on the Run – A bright, high-resolution, full-color Garmin Chroma Display with LED backlighting assures great readability in all ambient conditions. Transflective technology that reflects and transmits light at the same time enables the watch face to become even more readable under intense sunlight. Sapphire editions feature a scratch-resistant sapphire lens and are also Wi-Fi-enabled so your watch can connect to your wireless network and automatically send activity uploads for sharing on Garmin Connect.

Wrist-based Heart Rate – On your wrist, Elevate wrist heart rate technology lets you monitor your heart rate without wearing a chest strap. In addition to counting steps and monitoring sleep, the watch uses heart rate to provide calories burned information and quantify the intensity of your fitness activities.

Match Your Style with Interchangeable Watchbands – A selection of QuickFit bands in your choice of premium leather, metal or silicone makes it easy to mix and match styles to go with any sport or activity. No tools are required to make the transformation. Just swap, click and go.

Advanced Performance Metrics – Every Fenix 5S watch is packed with sophisticated training features to help monitor your form and performance. Enhanced readouts for Training Status and Training Effect show aerobic and anaerobic benefits of your workout – so you can see how your workouts are paying off and even compare results with your peers. The VO2 max estimator crunches data, including your running speed, beats per minute and heart rate variability, to estimate the maximum volume of oxygen you can consume per minute. And other fitness metrics include recovery advisor with a recovery timer and recovery check, plus a race predictor that estimates your ideal finish time based on your current VO2 max number.

Advanced Running Dynamics – Now you can go further with your running data. Garmin training features that tap into extended physiological metrics and advanced running dynamics can help improve your form and overall performance. These include:

Performance condition: After running for 6-20 minutes, Fenix 5S compares your real-time condition to your average fitness levels

Lactate threshold: Through analysis of your pace and heart rate, Fenix 5S estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue

Cadence — number of steps per minute

Stride length — shows your stride length in real time

Want more? By pairing your watch with a compatible heart rate chest strap such as the HRM-Run, you can access these additional fēnix 5S metrics:

Vertical oscillation and ratio — the degree of ‘bounce’ in your running motion and the benefit ratio to stride length

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

Stress score: fēnix 5S 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.

Swim Profiles, Skiing, Paddle Sports, Golf and More – Beyond their running functions, Fenix 5 watches also offer special feature sets to help with swim training, skiing, golfing and paddle sports, including stand-up paddle boarding and rowing. For swimmers, the device tracks your distance, pace, stroke count and more. Ski/Board mode puts speed, distance, vertical drop and an automatic run counter (with Auto Pause for the lift line) and more at your fingertips. The feature set for paddle sports includes stroke count, stroke rate and even distance per stroke. Golf mode gives you yardage to the front, back and middle of the green for any single course you’ve downloaded from Garmin Connect – and also adds enhancements such as stat tracking (fairways hit, etc.), Green View, AutoShot detection and auto measure.

Navigate the Great Outdoors, Your Way – Each model in the Fenix 5 series provides comprehensive navigation and tracking to guide you on and off the beaten path using GPS plus ABC (altimeter, barometer and compass) sensor capabilities. The built-in altimeter provides elevation data to accurately monitor ascent and descent, while the barometer can be used to predict weather changes by showing short-term trends in air pressure. The 3-axis electronic compass keeps your bearing, whether you’re moving or not. In addition, there’s an internal gyroscope to help improve position accuracy (and battery life) in UltraTrac mode – as well as a thermometer to help you monitor changing weather conditions.

So Many Ways to Stay Connected – All fēnix 5 series models can support smart notifications when paired with a compatible device. Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch – whether you’re on the trail, on the golf course or simply away from your desk. Other connected features include automatic uploads to our Garmin Connect online fitness community, live tracking and social media sharing through our free Garmin Connect and Garmin Connect Mobile applications.

Custom Apps and Watch Faces – You can customize your Fenix 5S watch with free downloads from our Connect IQ store. Change your watch face, add data fields or get apps and widgets for information at a glance.

Garmin is continually working with top companies and developers to build partnerships that add even more value to your Fenix multisport watch. Names such as Uber, Strava, AccuWeather and many others offer apps and enhancements that let you tailor your Fenix 5S to fit your lifestyle in more ways than ever.

Wear Your Personality on Your Sleeve – You can also download the free Garmin Face-It watch face app to customize your Fenix 5S with any photo from your smartphone. Just download the app, choose an image from your photo library, adjust the style for time and set it as your watch’s face. Whether it’s a scenic view from your last hike or a picture of your new puppy, with Garmin you can add personality to your watch that’s uniquely you.

Specifications

Physical & Performance

Physical dimensions: 1.7” x 1.7” x 0.6” (42.0 x 42.0 x 14.5 mm)

Display size, WxH: 1.1” (27.94 mm) diameter

Display resolution, WxH: 218 x 218 pixels; sunlight-visible, always-on, low power, colorful display

Colour display: Yes

Negative mode display: Yes

Weight: With silicone band: 2.4 oz (67.0 g)

Battery: Rechargeable lithium-ion

Battery life: Up to 9 days in smartwatch mode (depending on settings), up to 14 hours in GPS mode, and up to 40 hours in UltraTrac™ battery saver mode

Water rating: 10 ATM

GPS-enabled: Yes

GLONASS: Yes

High-sensitivity receiver: Yes

Barometric altimeter: Yes

Electronic compass: Yes

Smart notifications (displays email, text and other alerts when paired with your compatible phone): Yes

Vibration alert: Yes

Music control: Yes

Find my phone: Yes

VIRB control: Yes

Watch functions: Time of day (12/24h), calendar (day/date), daily alarm, stop watch, timer, sunrise/sunset alerts

Maps & Memory

Built-in memory: 64 MB; available 54 MB

Custom POIs (ability to add additional points of interest): Yes

Waypoints/favorites/locations: 1,000

Routes: 30

Track log: 200 hours

Running Features

Virtual Pacer (compares current pace to target): Yes

V02 max estimate: Yes

Recovery advisor: Yes

Race predictor: Yes

Running dynamics: Yes

Accelerometer (calculates distance for indoor workouts, without need for a foot pod): Yes

Personal records: Yes

Cycling Features

Compatible with Vector: Yes

Multiple bike profiles: Yes

Bike speed/cadence sensor: Yes (optional)

Performance Features

Heart rate monitor: Yes (wrist-based)

Virtual Partner® (train against a digital person): Yes

Virtual Racer™ (compete against other activities): Yes

Courses (compete against previous activities): Yes

Auto Pause® (pauses and resumes timer based on speed): Yes

Auto Lap® (automatically starts a new lap): Yes

Auto Scroll (cycles through data pages during workout): Yes

Multi-sport: Yes

Auto multisport (switch sport modes with 1 button press): Yes

Advanced workouts (create custom, goal-oriented workouts): Yes

Pace alert (triggers alarm if you vary from preset pace): Yes

Time/distance alert (triggers alarm when you reach goal): Yes

Interval training (set up exercise and rest intervals): Yes

Heart rate-based calorie computation: Yes

Calculates calories burned: Yes

Training Effect (measures impact of an activity on your aerobic fitness): Yes

Customizable screen(s): Yes

Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible 3rd party ANT+™-enabled power meters): Yes

Swimming Features

Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories): Yes

Stroke type identification (e.g. freestyle): Yes

Open water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories): Yes

Swim workouts: Yes

Golfing Features

Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Yes

Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green): Yes

Yardage to layups/doglegs: Yes

Digital scorecard: Yes

Outdoor Features

Hunt/fish calendar: Yes

Sun and moon information: Yes

Area calculation: Yes

Activity Tracking Features

Step counter: Yes

Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): Yes

Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): Yes

Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep): Yes

Garmin Connect

Garmin Connect compatible (online community where you analyze, categorize and share data): Yes

Automatic sync (automatically transfers data to your computer): Yes

Additional

Connect IQ app support: Yes (watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)

EXO antenna (GPS/GLONASS): Yes

Wi-Fi: Yes (Sapphire versions only)

ANT+: Yes (all versions)

Bluetooth: Low Energy (all versions)

Training Effect 2.0 (measures impact of an activity on your aerobic & anaerobic fitness): Yes

Training Load: Yes

Training Status: Yes

Lactate Threshold: Yes

Weather Alerts: Yes

UltraTrac: Yes

tempe sensor support: Yes

TracBack: Yes

Ski features: Yes

Physiological measurements: Yes

SUP/Rowing: Yes

Foot pod: yes (optional)
What’s in the Box?

Fenix 5S

Charging/data cable

Documentation