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product_id: 447320475
title: "Forerunner 255 GPS 46mm Running Smartwatch, Lightweight, Advanced Training & Insights, Safety & Tracking Features, up to 14 days Battery Life, Slate Grey"
brand: "garmin"
price: "€ 452.82"
currency: EUR
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reviews_count: 10
category: "Garmin"
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# Multi-band GPS accuracy 14 days battery life Adaptive training plans Forerunner 255 GPS 46mm Running Smartwatch, Lightweight, Advanced Training & Insights, Safety & Tracking Features, up to 14 days Battery Life, Slate Grey

**Brand:** garmin
**Price:** € 452.82
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🏅 Elevate your run, own your day — the Forerunner 255 is your ultimate training partner.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Forerunner 255 GPS 46mm Running Smartwatch, Lightweight, Advanced Training & Insights, Safety & Tracking Features, up to 14 days Battery Life, Slate Grey by garmin
- **How much does it cost?** € 452.82 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.it](https://www.desertcart.it/products/447320475-forerunner-255-gps-46mm-running-smartwatch-lightweight-advanced-training-insights)

## Best For

- garmin enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted garmin brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Unmatched Endurance:** Up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode keeps you powered through your busiest weeks without a recharge.
- • **Cashless Convenience:** Garmin Pay lets you breeze through purchases without your wallet, perfect for on-the-go professionals.
- • **Stay Connected & Safe:** Receive texts, emails, and alerts on your wrist with seamless smartphone integration plus safety tracking for peace of mind.
- • **Smart Training Insights:** Adaptive daily workouts and HRV monitoring tailor your training and recovery for peak performance.
- • **Precision Tracking Everywhere:** Multi-band satellite support (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo) ensures pinpoint accuracy even in the toughest environments.

## Overview

The Garmin Forerunner 255 is a lightweight 46mm GPS running smartwatch designed for serious athletes and busy professionals alike. It offers up to 14 days of battery life, advanced multi-band satellite tracking for superior accuracy, and adaptive training plans that evolve with your performance. With integrated health insights like HRV and sleep tracking, plus safety features and Garmin Pay contactless payments, it’s engineered to keep you connected, safe, and ahead of your fitness goals.

## Description

Shop Garmin Forerunner 255 GPS 46mm Running Smartwatch, Lightweight, Advanced Training & Insights, Safety & Tracking Features, up to 14 days Battery Life, Slate Grey. Free delivery and returns on all eligible orders.

Review: Excellent, smart, comfortable, simple to use - Excellent watch. Very pleased with my purchase. You need to know that desertcart will send you a "one time password" and you need to give this to the delivery driver. They will not simply leave it in a safe place; they have to give it to you personally. Plan accordingly! This is my first sports watch, but I was familiar with the Garmin buttons because family members own different models. Set up was far easier than I expected. Using an Android phone I was able to download the app and get the watch up and running in about 5 minutes. Not difficult at all. Quite a relief. Setting the watch up exactly how you want it in terms of display, putting preferred activities in the right order, and so on, is quite intuitive, but best approached a bit at a time over the first few days as you get used to it. Many of these watches are shown in advertisements with all the information on the screen. However, it is easy to choose a simple, uncluttered, watch face that is easy to read at a glance when you are just using it as a watch. A nice touch is that a quick flick of the wrist is enough to light up the watch face for a few seconds. This means the light is off most of the time (to save battery) but comes on when you need it without having to press any buttons. My preferred activity is running. Press one button once to bring up the running screen. A few seconds later, it buzzes to confirm it has locked onto the GPS satellites. Press one button to start recording the run. Press the same button to stop recording. It's that simple. While you're running, it shows the information you need in simple clear format. I have mine set on metric, which means it pings and gives a "lap time" every 1 km. If I have my phone with me and the app open, it also gives me a voice update. The app on my phone gives me more information than I could ever need, but the basics are very easy to interpret. One slight irritation: you can set it on kilometres, or you can set it on miles. Like a lot of British people, I run in km, and cycle in miles, and there appears to be no way of getting the watch to do some activities in metric and some in "imperial". A work around is to have the watch set in metric, and the app on the phone in imperial. The same activity will then show in km on the watch and miles on the phone. Another work around is to do the simple arithmetic after the activity. However, I would have preferred the option to set different units for the different activities. A quick look at Garmin users' forums shows I am not the only one. Another slight irritation: although the steps counter is very accurate indeed when I am walking outside, it seems to record a small number of extra steps randomly when I am driving or on the motorbike. Over the course of a day, this may add 1,000 steps to the actual number I have walked. Also, working on the ground floor of a tall building, I find that it doesn't always record the steps I take indoors. The overall feel of the watch is good quality. The display is attractive, clear and easy to read, and the strap is simple, smart, and comfortable and very adjustable. Battery life so far has been excellent. I give it a few minutes' charge while I'm in the shower, and so far the display has never dipped below 13 days of battery life. That's when used as a watch. Battery life when recording an activity is of course less because it's doing more work. I am not a gadget person, and it took me a long time to decide to buy this. All I really wanted was a smart-looking watch with a clear analogue display, and the ability to record runs and cycle rides accurately. This does so much more, but I have very quickly come to appreciate it as an excellent bit of kit.
Review: Great upgrade from the 245 - I upgraded from the Forerunner 245 and have been very happy. The 255 has more features that I’ve been enjoying, such as tracking HRV and a sleep score. The battery life is a drastic improvement and have run several 50km trail races with no problems. It is very sturdy and is showing zero signs of damage after 10 months of wearing it 24/7. I only have two negative things to say about this watch. It is massive and doesn’t look the best on my small wrist. Also, the Training Preparedness feature isn’t available on this watch, which is a shame.

## Features

- Forerunner 255 provides up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 30 hours in GPS mode for a full picture of your health — from sleep to training
- Morning report summarises your sleep, HRV status and daily workout suggestion in one place as soon as you wake up
- View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery
- HRV status tracks your heart rate variability while you sleep, giving you greater insight into your overall wellness, recovery and training performance
- Get free adaptive training plans from Garmin Coach for a 5K, 10K and half-marathon, or create your own custom workouts in the Garmin Connect smartphone app
- Evaluates your current training status to indicate if you’re undertraining or overdoing it; offers additional performance monitoring features, including recovery time after your workouts
- Multi-band satellite tracking on GPS, GLONASS and Galileo networks gives you superior accuracy for how far and how fast you’ve run — even in challenging environments
- Safety and tracking features make it easy to share your location with chosen contacts if you feel unsafe, if an incident is detected or for loved ones to track your runs
- Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your Apple or Android smartphone; you can even respond to texts if you have an Android phone
- Leave your cash and cards at home; Garmin Pay contactless payments1 let you pay for purchases on the go

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0B46N7QQL |
| Batteries | 1 AA batteries required. |
| Best Sellers Rank | 515 in Electronics & Photo ( See Top 100 in Electronics & Photo ) 21 in Smartwatches |
| Colour | Slate Grey |
| Connectivity technologies | Bluetooth |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (2,263) |
| Date First Available | 1 April 2023 |
| Display technology | LCD |
| GPS | Built-in GPS |
| Human interface input | Buttons |
| Item Weight | 49 g |
| Item model number | 010-02641-10 |
| OS | Android |
| Other display features | Sports |
| Product Dimensions | 4.56 x 4.56 x 1.29 cm; 49 g |
| Scanner Resolution | 260 x 260 |
| Special features | Bluetooth, Waterproof |
| What’s in the box | Forerunner 255, Power/Data Cable, Documentation |
| Wireless communication technologies | Bluetooth, NFC, Wi-Fi |

## Product Details

- **Battery capacity:** 10000 Milliamp Hours
- **Battery cell composition:** Lithium Ion
- **Connectivity technology:** Bluetooth
- **GPS:** Built-in GPS
- **Memory storage capacity:** 4 GB
- **Operating system:** Android
- **Screen size:** 1.3 Inches
- **Shape:** Round
- **Special feature:** Bluetooth, Waterproof
- **Wireless communication standard:** Bluetooth

## Images

![Forerunner 255 GPS 46mm Running Smartwatch, Lightweight, Advanced Training & Insights, Safety & Tracking Features, up to 14 days Battery Life, Slate Grey - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tjy7Umf0L.jpg)

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Does this watch count steps and track distance when on a treadmill?**
A: It won’t track the distance unless you record it as a treadmill run but it will still count the steps hope that helps

**Q: Can you swim in a lake and also in the sea with the watch**
A: Yes

**Q: Does this model have built in music**
A: No but they do have a music version of the same model though

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent, smart, comfortable, simple to use
*by M***N on 10 April 2025*

Excellent watch. Very pleased with my purchase. You need to know that Amazon will send you a "one time password" and you need to give this to the delivery driver. They will not simply leave it in a safe place; they have to give it to you personally. Plan accordingly! This is my first sports watch, but I was familiar with the Garmin buttons because family members own different models. Set up was far easier than I expected. Using an Android phone I was able to download the app and get the watch up and running in about 5 minutes. Not difficult at all. Quite a relief. Setting the watch up exactly how you want it in terms of display, putting preferred activities in the right order, and so on, is quite intuitive, but best approached a bit at a time over the first few days as you get used to it. Many of these watches are shown in advertisements with all the information on the screen. However, it is easy to choose a simple, uncluttered, watch face that is easy to read at a glance when you are just using it as a watch. A nice touch is that a quick flick of the wrist is enough to light up the watch face for a few seconds. This means the light is off most of the time (to save battery) but comes on when you need it without having to press any buttons. My preferred activity is running. Press one button once to bring up the running screen. A few seconds later, it buzzes to confirm it has locked onto the GPS satellites. Press one button to start recording the run. Press the same button to stop recording. It's that simple. While you're running, it shows the information you need in simple clear format. I have mine set on metric, which means it pings and gives a "lap time" every 1 km. If I have my phone with me and the app open, it also gives me a voice update. The app on my phone gives me more information than I could ever need, but the basics are very easy to interpret. One slight irritation: you can set it on kilometres, or you can set it on miles. Like a lot of British people, I run in km, and cycle in miles, and there appears to be no way of getting the watch to do some activities in metric and some in "imperial". A work around is to have the watch set in metric, and the app on the phone in imperial. The same activity will then show in km on the watch and miles on the phone. Another work around is to do the simple arithmetic after the activity. However, I would have preferred the option to set different units for the different activities. A quick look at Garmin users' forums shows I am not the only one. Another slight irritation: although the steps counter is very accurate indeed when I am walking outside, it seems to record a small number of extra steps randomly when I am driving or on the motorbike. Over the course of a day, this may add 1,000 steps to the actual number I have walked. Also, working on the ground floor of a tall building, I find that it doesn't always record the steps I take indoors. The overall feel of the watch is good quality. The display is attractive, clear and easy to read, and the strap is simple, smart, and comfortable and very adjustable. Battery life so far has been excellent. I give it a few minutes' charge while I'm in the shower, and so far the display has never dipped below 13 days of battery life. That's when used as a watch. Battery life when recording an activity is of course less because it's doing more work. I am not a gadget person, and it took me a long time to decide to buy this. All I really wanted was a smart-looking watch with a clear analogue display, and the ability to record runs and cycle rides accurately. This does so much more, but I have very quickly come to appreciate it as an excellent bit of kit.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great upgrade from the 245
*by T***Y on 19 January 2026*

I upgraded from the Forerunner 245 and have been very happy. The 255 has more features that I’ve been enjoying, such as tracking HRV and a sleep score. The battery life is a drastic improvement and have run several 50km trail races with no problems. It is very sturdy and is showing zero signs of damage after 10 months of wearing it 24/7. I only have two negative things to say about this watch. It is massive and doesn’t look the best on my small wrist. Also, the Training Preparedness feature isn’t available on this watch, which is a shame.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hooked for life - Forerunner 255. Amazing.
*by P***L on 30 May 2025*

If I could give more than 5 stars I would. I am amazed. There is so much functionality within the Forerunner 255. It connects instantly to my phone and app. The quality is rugged but looks very stylish and the watch straps are easy to snap on and off. I hike a lot and love the built in route features with GPS tracking and navigation. Screen brightness is great especially in the sun. I actually prefer that it is not touch screen. Something about still being able to have clickable, tactile and good quality buttons in this day and age is comforting. I think for a sports smart watch especially, having a touch screen can be a negative as water, sweat, mud or dust can often cause unintentional actions within the interface. This is my first Garmin watch and I am now hooked for life.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-02*