Quality by design
Rugged yet sophisticated design features a large 1.4" display that's 36% larger than previous fēnix models. It is tested to U.S. military standards for thermal, shock and water resistance.
Premium materials
Fit the look to your lifestyle with your choice of stainless steel or DLC coated bezels. Sapphire editions add a scratch-resistant sapphire lens and premium materials.
PacePro technology
A first-of-its-kind PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.
TopoActive Europe and ski maps
Use TopoActive Europe maps to navigate your adventures and view run names and difficulty ratings for 2,000 worldwide ski resorts.
Power manager
View how various settings and sensors impact your watch's battery life, so you can make battery-extending changes on the fly.
Performance metrics
View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics1, heat- and altitude-adjusted VO2 max, recovery advisor and more.
Sports apps
Use preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, backcountry and resort skiing, golfing and more.
ClimbPro feature
Use ClimbPro ascent planner to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.
Golf courses
Access full-colour CourseView maps for more than 41,000 golf courses around the world, and get button targeting and the PlaysLike Distance feature.
Turn-by-turn navigation
Follow a route or course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.
Round-trip routing
Enter a distance you want to travel, and get suggested routes that will bring you back to your starting point. Trendline™ popularity routing helps you find the best local paths.
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.
Safety and tracking features
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident has occurred, assistance and incident detection features3 send your location to emergency contacts.
Music apps
Store up to 2,000 songs, or access preloaded streaming apps from your compatible services including Spotify®, Deezer and Amazon, and listen through headphones with Bluetooth® technology.
Garmin Pay™ service
Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
Smart notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible device.
Wrist-based heart rate
Enhanced optical heart rate technology gauges the intensity of your fitness activities as well as heart rate variability to calculate your stress level score. It also tracks underwater without a heart rate strap.
Connect IQ™ Store
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store.
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.
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.
Expedition mode
Trek far and wide between recharges. Expedition mode, an ultralow-powered GPS reference, lasts for weeks.
Battery
Internal, rechargeable lithium battery provides up to 9 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, 6 hours in GPS mode with music and up to 34 days in battery saver mode.
Specs
General
Lens material Corning® Gorilla® Glass DX
Bezel material Stainless steel, titanium or diamond-like carbon (DLC) coated titanium
Case material Fibre-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover
QuickFit™ watch band compatible Included (26 mm)
Strap material Silicone, suede or nylon
Physical size 51 x 51 x 14.90mm
Fits wrists with the following circumference:
Silicone band: 127-210 mm
Leather band: 135-213 mm
Fabric band: 135-213 mm
Metal band: 135-225 mm
Display size 1.40" (35.56 mm) diameter
Display resolution 280 x 280 pixels
Display type Sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
Weight Steel: 93 g (case only: 66 g)
Battery life
Smartwatch: up to 21 days
GPS: up to 60 hours
GPS and music: up to 15 hours
Max battery GPS mode: up to 120 hours
Expedition GPS mode: up to 46 days
Battery saver watch mode: up to 80 days
Water rating 10 ATM
Colour display
Memory/history 32 GB
Clock features
Time/date Yes
GPS time sync
Automatic daylight saving time
Alarm clock
Timer
Stopwatch
Sunrise/sunset times
Sensors
GPS
GLONASS
Galileo
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
Barometric altimeter
Compass
Gyroscope
Accelerometer
Thermometer
Pulse Ox yes (with Acclimation)
Daily smart features
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
Smart notifications
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
Connectivity Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
Calendar
Weather
Music storage up to 2,000 songs
Battery Saver - customizable 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
Incident Detection during select activities
Assistance
LiveTrack
Group LiveTrack
Live Event Sharing
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)
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)
Calories burned
Floors climbed
Distance travelled
Intensity minutes
TrueUp™
Move IQ™
Fitness age Yes (in app)
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor
All-day stress tracking
Fitness equipment/gym
Available gym activity profiles Strength, cardio and elliptical training, stair stepping, floor climbing, indoor rowing and yoga
Cardio workouts
Strength workouts
Automatic rep counting
Training, planning and analysis features
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
Heart rate 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)
Running features
Available run profiles Running, treadmill running, trail 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_preloaded_course
Run workouts
Race predictor
Foot pod capable
Golfing features
Preloaded with 41,000 courses worldwide no_download_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
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
Garmin AutoShot™
Full vector map
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 Trail running, running, hiking, climbing, 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
Trail run auto climb
Vertical speed
Total ascent/descent
Future elevation plot
Preloaded TopoActive Europe maps
Preloaded ski resort maps
Compatible with BaseCamp™
GPS coordinates
Projected waypoint
Sight 'N Go
Area calculation Yes (via Connect IQ™)
Hunt/fish calendar Yes (via Connect IQ™)
Sun and moon information Yes (via Connect IQ™)
XERO™ Locations
Expedition GPS Activity
Cycling features
Available cycling profiles Biking, indoor biking, mountain biking, triathlon
Courses
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)
Race an activity
Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
FTP (Functional threshold power) Yes (with compatible accessory)
Compatible with Vector™ (power meter)
Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+™-enabled power meters)
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/rate, 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)
Pacing Alerts (pool swim only)
Countdown start
Pool swim workouts
Critical swim speed
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™)
Connectivity
Smartphone compatibility iPhone®, Android™
In the Box
fēnix 6X
Charging/data cable
Documentation