How Long Will My Garmin Smartwatch Battery Last?
Answer: Longer than most other smartwatch brands.
If you’re charging your smartwatch every night while you sleep, your smartwatch is falling short. If your smartwatch battery life lasts only a day — or even just a couple — you’re missing out on tracking your body’s physiological metrics while it’s charging.
This means you’re not getting a complete picture of your overall health and fitness status, not to mention you’re missing out on the smart notifications you’ve come to rely on while it’s off your wrist and on the charger.
Beyond wellness essentials, lengthy battery life is key for outdoor adventures or competitions where you’ll use GPS. You need a tool you can rely on — you don’t want to stress about losing battery life. For example, you may rely on watch navigation during a trail run to stay on course. No outlet? No problem. With solar charging on a sunny day, you can charge your watch while running.
Luckily for you, Garmin watch batteries last a long time — and we mean a long time. At minimum, Garmin fitness and outdoor watches should be getting about a week of battery life before having to recharge, and at maximum you could be getting unlimited battery life with the Instinct® 3 Solar adventure smartwatch, thanks to solar charging1. (No, that is not a typo).
It all depends on the features that are important to you and the watch that best fits your lifestyle. If battery life is important to you (and we bet it is), below we’ve listed our smartwatch models and their corresponding battery life.
Note: It’s important to know that this chart only depicts smartwatch mode. If your specific watch has other capabilities such as built-in GPS, battery conservation functionality and more, those numbers may look different.
| Garmin Watch | Up to this much battery life in smartwatch mode |
| Approach® S44 and S50 | Up to 10 days |
| Approach® S70 | Up to 16 days |
| Descent™ G2 | Up to 10 days |
| Descent™ Mk3i 51 mm | Up to 25 days |
| Enduro™ 3 | Up to 36 days (90 days with solar)1 |
| fēnix® 8 Pro – 51 mm, MicroLED | Up to 10 days |
| fēnix® 8 Pro – 51 mm, AMOLED | Up to 27 days |
| fēnix® 8 – 51 mm, AMOLED | Up to 29 days |
| fēnix® 8 – 51 mm, Solar | Up to 30 days (48 days with solar)1 |
| Forerunner® 165 Series | Up to 11 days |
| Forerunne® 55 | Up to 2 weeks |
| Forerunner® 570 – 47mm | Up to 11 days |
| Forerunner® 970 | Up to 15 days |
| Instinct® E – 45 mm | Up to 16 days |
| Instinct® 3 – 50 mm, AMOLED | Up to 24 days |
| Instinct® 3 – 50 mm, Solar | Up to 40 days (unlimited with solar)1 |
| Lily® 2 and Lily® 2 Classic | Up to 5 days |
| Lily® 2 Active | Up to 9 days |
| MARQ® (Gen 2) Collection | Up to 16 days |
| quatix® 8 – 47 mm, AMOLED | Up to 16 days |
| quatix® 8 – 51 mm, AMOLED | Up to 29 days |
| tactix® 8 – 51 mm, AMOLED | Up to 29 days |
| tactix® 8 Solar and Solar, Elite | Up to 30 days (48 days with solar)1 |
| Venu® 4 – 45 mm | Up to 12 days |
| vívoactive® 6 | Up to 11 days |
| vívofit® 4 | 1+ year depending on usage |
| vívofit® jr. 3 | Up to 1 year |
| vívomove® Series | Up to 5 days |
| vívosmart® 5 | Up to 7 days |
Whether you’re looking for a watch that can carry you through your daily neighbourhood runs or you want unlimited battery life for your weekslong backcountry exploration adventures, Garmin has a watch with battery life to fit your needs — whatever those may be. Browse our full collection of smartwatches here.
1Assumes all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions
