The Garmin Forerunner 955/955 Solar puts more productivity, more battery life, more performance features, and more GPS accruacy on your wrist—for the same price as the old model!

That's right, in a time when the price of everything is going up, Garmin has added a touchscreen, new multi-band GPS for even better GPS tracking, new performance and recovery features, and solar-charging—and you'll pay the same as the former Forerunner 945 ($599.99). The non-solar Forerunner 955 option is actually $100 cheaper!

With traditional buttons and a touch display, it has never been easier to tap into your training status and know whether you’re training productively, peaking, or strained.

Your new Forerunner 955 can do everything the FR945 can, plus offers a training readiness features, a race widget, a morning report, and heart rate variability (HRV) status for a picture of your overall health. (This device is intended to give an estimate of your activity and metrics).

Plus, more Forerunner 955 battery life in both the solar and non-solar options!

Find out more about all the 2022 Garmin Forerunner 955/955 Solar features below.

And jump over to this page to see all the FR955 product specs!

The Garmin Forerunner 955/955 Solar running watch comes with built-in, full-color detailed mapping—including digital elevation data.

Move around the map using the upper right button, which allows you to zoom/pan/scroll or use the new highly responsive touchscreen. You can see the terrain around you, as well as navigate to points of interest or other places.

Plus, you can create Round-Trip Courses for both running and cycling that allow you to set a given distance and desired direction of travel. You can get three different courses using Trendline Popularity Routing data—with no internet connection required!

Finally, you can follow any downloaded courses as well, using Garmin’s smartphone course creator or any other downloaded GPS files. Following these routes, you’ll get instructions on when to turn and when you’re off-route.

Train more, charge less with the enhanced battery life of the 2022 Forerunner 955/955 Solar GPS watch for runners and triathletes!

Garmin Forerunner 955 Battery Life

• Smartwatch mode: Up to 15 days
• GPS-only mode without music: Up to 42 hours
• All-Systems GNSS mode plus Multi-Band with music: Up to 8.5 hours
• All Systems GNSS mode plus Multi-Band without music: Up to 20 hours
• Ultratrac mode: Up to 80 hours

Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar Battery Life

• Smartwatch mode: Up to 15 days/20 days with solar*
• GPS-only mode without music: Up to 42 hours/49 hours with solar**
• All-Systems GNSS mode plus Multi-Band with music: Up to 8.5 hours
• All Systems GNSS mode plus Multi-Band without music: Up to 20 hours/22 hours with solar**
• Ultratrac mode: Up to 80 hours/110 hours with solar**

*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

While Garmin fattened the Forerunner 955 and 955 Solar with several sweet upgrades, they didn't increase the cost!

Everything about this lightweight Garmin running watch is ideal for ultra runners, trail runners, marathon runners—both serious runners and those starting out who want a serious running watch on their wrist. Plus, the multisport nature of it makes it especially attractive to triathletes.

And even though its upgrades puts it on par with the more rugged Garmin fēnix 7 and AMOLED display-adorned epix 2 multisport watches, it still goes for several hundreds less. In fact, the upgraded solar-charging model of the 2022 Forerunner 955 is going at the same price as the previous FR945! And the non-solar FR955 is $100 under that!

Check out the price comparison between these best Garmin watches for runners:

Garmin Forerunner 945: $599.99

Garmin Forerunner 955: $499.99

Garmin Forerunner 955 Solar: $599.99

Garmin epix (Gen 2): $899.99 – $999.99

Garmin fēnix 7/7S/7X: $699.99 – $999.99

The Forerunner 955/955 Solar comes standard with music to control and play through your smartphone or store and play on watch. And it's a nice package!

The Garmin FR955 can store up to 1,000 songs on board—twice as much as the Forerunner 255 Music, but only half as much as the fēnix 7 and epix (Gen 2). Onboarding your tunes goes like this:

• Manually copied music files: These are saved MP3 files, playlists and the like that you sync via USB cable to your computer.
• Streaming services cached files: These are offline playlists/favorites from music services like Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Deezer, cached for playback when not near connectivity.

And, unlike other Garmin GPS watches with music, you get audio alerts for things like pace and laps. You can also add a music page to your workouts data pages.

You’ll need a Bluetooth audio device of some sort to listen to music through or on your Forerunner 955 GPS watch. Headphones are best for workouts, but it will also pair with a speaker, your car ... anything with Bluetooth technology and a speaker.

Along with more features & battery life, the Forerunner 955/955 Solar offers both models—standard and solar—in Black and Whitestone.

You'll also be happy to know that even though Garmin stuffed a lot more into this watch, it has the same 1.3" display size and added 3 g (53 g vs 50 g of the FR945), so it won't clunk up your runner's wrist!

Here are a few more preliminary specs:

Display: 1.3" always on, full-collor touchscreen display that is easy to read even in direct sunlight. Solar model is made with Power Glass™.

Physical dimensions: 46.5 x 46.5 x 14.4 mm (1.8" x 1.8" x .6")

Weight: 1.9 oz. or 53 g

See the full Garmin Forerunner 955/955 Solar product specs here.

When it comes to multisport GPS watches for runners and triathletes, Garmin is the best brand out there—for training, health, and performance analysis, accurate GPS and heart rate, battery life, data customization, adequate connectivity for your sensors, and build quality.

And two watches are at the top of the of this list for runners: the Forerunner 955/955 Solar and the fēnix 7/7S/7X. Is the Garmin epix (Gen 2) gorgeous and awesomely filled with similar features? Yes. But it tends not to sport the battery life that many runners are used to. And is the Garmin tactix 7 incredible? Hell, yeah. But it tends to have more tactical features than your average runner needs—and more of a price tag!

So, how do you choose between the Forerunner 955 and the fēnix 7 lineup?

If you want a more slender, lightwieight Garmin watch with plenty of battery life and loads of running/multisport features with a price tag under $600—you'll want the new Forerunner 955 or 955 Solar.

If you want a rugged design that can handle extreme conditions, that is somewhat bulkier and heavier, that has a lot more color, size, and model options (try 16!), blows everything out of the water in terms of battery life, and has the price tag to match (the smallest fēnix 7S starts at $699.99), then you will gravitate toward a Garmin fēnix 7 watch.

When using a Running Dynamics Pod or HRM-Pro™ monitor (sold separately), the Forerunner 955 GPS watch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, and more!

If you prefer to run without a chest strap, the Garmin Running Dynamics Pod has an accelerometer in the module that measures torso movement to calculate these 6 running metrics: cadence, ground contact time balance, stride length, vertical oscillation, vertical ratio, and ground contact time.

If you prefer a chest strap, PlayBetter has Garmin heart rate monitor chest straps for sale:

• Garmin HRM-Run
  
  
• Garmin HRM-Pro
  
  
• Garmin HRM-Tri

Check them out to get even more out of your training!