This rugged GPS smartwatch is tough enough to keep up with you and unique enough to fit your style. Now it comes in two sizes to fit every wrist.
This watch is tough, which means no holding back.
Train your way with built-in sports apps at the wrist.
Smart notifications so you don’t miss out on what matters.
Push boundaries, but stay on track with access to more satellites.
Understand your body better with 24/7 health monitoring.
Don’t put a limit on your experiences. Keep them going with up to 28 days of battery life in smartwatch mode.
Engineered For Endurance
This rugged watch is water-rated to 100 meters and is thermal and shock resistant. Plus, with a fiber-reinforced polymer case and chemically strengthened, scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass, this device is built to endure.
Designed To Do You
Bold colors, high-contrast displays and size options let you show the world that you do things your own way.
Track every adventure.
Multi-Gnss Support
Whether you’re hiking, mountain biking, trail running or skiing, you’ll have access to 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 3-axis electronic compass.
Tracback Routing
Take the guesswork out of your return journey by using this feature to navigate the same route back to your starting point.
Live connected.
Smart Notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone.
Connect IQ Store
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app on your compatible smartphone.
Safety And Tracking Features
When your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or - during select outdoor activities - automatically with built-in incident detection.
Train your way.
Built-In Sports Apps
Do whatever you love with preloaded activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming, strength training, indoor climbing, virtual running, golf, yoga and more.
HIIT Workouts
This activity profile tracks your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals and more.
VO2 Max
Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. It even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.
Daily Workout Suggestions
For training guidance that takes you and your fitness level into account, get daily recommendations based on your current training load and training status.
Recovery Time
After each workout, recovery time lets you know when you’ll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep.
MTB Dynamics
Track the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics plus specialized Grit and Flow measurements that rate trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend, giving you a score to beat next time.
Know your body.
Wrist-Based Heart Rate
Get estimated heart rate data along with alerts if your heart rate stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities.
Stress Tracking
Heart rate variability is used to calculate your stress level score, so you can see if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
Sleep Score And Advanced Sleep Monitoring
Get a full breakdown of your light, deep and REM sleep stages. View it all on a dedicated widget that includes your sleep score and insights.
Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring
Optimize 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.
Pulse OX
For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox sensor uses light beams at your wrist to estimate how well your body is absorbing oxygen.
Fitness Age
This feature uses chronological age, your weekly vigorous activity, resting heart rate and BMI to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. Get tips to lower your fitness age.
Intensity Minutes
Track how many minutes of vigorous activity you’re getting, when you earn them and during what activity. You can even view them as a data field during timed activities.
Women’s Health Tracking
Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more.
In The Box
Instinct 2
Charging/data cable
Documentation
General
Lens Material
Power Glass
Bezel Material
fiber-reinforced polymer
Case material
fiber-reinforced polymer
QuickFit watch band compatible
yes (22 mm)
Strap material
silicone
Physical size
45 x 45 x 14.2 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-230 mm
Display Size
custom, two-window design; 0.9” x 0.9” (23 x 23 mm)
Smartwatch: Up to 28 days Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 65 days GPS: Up to 30 hours Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 70 hours Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 32 days
Water rating
10 ATM
Memory/History
32 MB
Clock Features
Time/date
Yes
GPS Time Sync
Yes
Automatic daylight saving time
Yes
Alarm clock
Yes
Timer
Yes
Stopwatch
Yes
Sunrise/sunset times
Yes
Health Monitoring
Wrist-based Heart Rate (constant, every second)
Yes
Daily Resting Heart Rate
Yes
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts
Yes (high and low)
Respiration rate (24x7)
Yes
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation
Yes (spot-check, during sleep, all day)
Fitness Age
Yes
Body Battery Energy Monitor
Yes
All-day Stress
Yes
Relaxation breathing timer
Yes
Sleep
Yes
Sleep score and insights
Yes
Hydration
Yes (in Garmin Connect)
Women's Health
Yes (in Garmin Connect)
Health snapshot
Yes
Sensors
GPS
Yes
Glonass
Yes
Galileo
Yes
Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor
Yes
Barometric altimeter
Yes
Compass
Yes
Accelerometer
Yes
Thermometer
Yes
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor
Yes
Daily Smart Features
Connectivity
Bluetooth, ANT+
Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
Yes
Smart Notifications
Yes
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only)
Yes
Calendar
Yes
Weather
Yes
Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile
Yes
Battery saver (customizable low power watch)
Yes
Controls smartphone music
Yes
Find My Phone
Yes
Find My Watch
Yes
VIRB Remote
Yes
Smartphone compatibility
iPhone, Android
Pairs with Garmin Golf app
Yes
Pairs with Garmin Connect Mobile
Yes
Safety and Tracking Features
LiveTrack
Yes
Incident Detection during select activities
Yes
Assistance
Yes
Tactical Features
Dual grid coordinates
Yes
Activity Tracking Features
Step counter
Yes
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
Yes
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Yes
Calories burned
Yes
Floors climbed
Yes
Distance traveled
Yes
Intensity minutes
Yes
TrueUp
Yes
Move IQ
Yes
Garmin Connect Challenges app
Yes (optional Connect IQ app)
Gym & Fitness Equipment
Available gym activity profiles
Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, HIIT, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, and Yoga
Cardio workouts
Yes
Strength workouts
Yes
HIIT workouts
Yes
Automatic rep counting
Yes
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
HR zones
Yes
HR alerts
Yes
HR calories
Yes
% HR max
Yes
% HRR
Yes
Recovery time
Yes
Auto max HR
Yes
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices)
Yes (using ANT+)
Respiration rate (during exercise)
Yes
GPS speed and distance
Yes
Customizable data pages
Yes
Customizable activity profiles
Yes
Auto Pause
Yes
Interval training
Yes
Advanced workouts
Yes
Downloadable training plans
Yes
Power Modes - customizable in-activity battery settings
Yes
Auto Lap
Yes
Manual lap
Yes
Configurable lap alerts
Yes
Heat and altitude acclimation
Yes
VO2 Max (Run)
Yes
VO2 Max (Trail Run)
Yes
Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.)
Yes
Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC)
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)
Yes
Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level)
Yes
Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue)
Yes (with compatible accessory)
Run workouts
Yes
Race predictor
Yes
Foot pod capable
Yes
Golfing Features
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
Yes
Yardage to layups/doglegs
Yes
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)
manual
Digital scorecard
Yes
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
Yes
Auto CourseView updates
Yes
Green View with manual pin position
Yes
Hazards and course targets
Yes
Round timer/odometer
Yes
Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)
Yes
Tournament legal
Yes
Outdoor Recreation
Available outdoor recreation profiles
Hiking, Climbing, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Fishing, Hunting, Tactical
Point-to-point navigation
Yes
Bread crumb trail in real time
Yes
Back to start
Yes
TracBack
Yes
UltraTrac mode
Yes
Elevation profile
Yes
Distance to destination
Yes
Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert
Yes
Trail run auto climb
Yes
Vertical speed
Yes
Total ascent/descent
Yes
Future elevation plot
Yes
Compatible with BaseCamp
Yes
GPS coordinates
Yes
Sight 'N Go
Yes
Area calculation
Yes
Projected waypoint
Yes
Sun and moon information
Yes
XERO Locations
Yes
Expedition GPS Activity
Yes
Cycling Features
Available cycling profiles
Biking, Road Biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel Biking, Cyclocross, Bike Commuting, Bike Touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking
Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
Yes
Courses
Yes
MTB Grit & Flow
Yes
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)