fēnix® 5S

Part Number 010-01685-20

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Get More From Your Workout with Less on Your Wrist

Premium smaller-sized (42 mm) multisport GPS watch with Elevate™ wrist heart rate technology¹
Preloaded activity profiles for all of your sports and adventures
Put key stats at your fingertips with the performance widget that shows the effects and progress of your workouts
Connected features² include smart notifications, automatic uploads to Garmin Connect™ online fitness community and personalization through free watch faces and apps from our Connect IQ™ store
Outdoor sensors, including GPS and GLONASS satellite reception and 3-axis compass with gyroscope and barometric altimeter

For serious athletes and adventurers who want to do more, not wear more – fēnix 5S is the perfect fit. It’s our premium multisport watch that offers full-size performance in a lighter, sleeker, more compact design. So you can beat yesterday with advanced features such as wrist-based heart rate¹, built-in activity profiles, navigation functions, and performance metrics that measure the effectiveness of your workout. It’s one smart sportwatch you can comfortably wear anywhere – office or outback – to keep pace with your active lifestyle.

Striking Design, Strong Performance

Athletes and adventurers come in all sizes. That’s why the fēnix 5 series offers multiple models that vary in size to fit every wrist and every workout. Each version offers a variety of stainless steel finishes, QuickFit™ watch band combinations and premium feature sets to give you the look, performance and lightweight comfort to match both your aesthetic and athletic interests.

Dual Navigation Networks

Every fēnix 5 series watch features advanced GPS and GLONASS satellite reception to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone. You can count on long battery life in each mode of operation (varies by model, depending on settings). And for go-anywhere confidence, all fēnix 5 versions are water-rated to 100 meters.

Outstanding Readability on the Run

A bright, high-resolution, full-color Garmin Chroma Display™ with LED backlighting assures great readability in all ambient conditions. Transflective technology that reflects and transmits light at the same time enables the watch face to become even more readable under intense sunlight. Sapphire editions feature a scratch-resistant sapphire lens and are also Wi-Fi®-enabled so your watch can connect to your wireless network and automatically send activity uploads for sharing on Garmin Connect.

Wrist-based Heart Rate¹

On your wrist, Elevate wrist heart rate technology lets you monitor your heart rate without wearing a chest strap. In addition to counting steps and monitoring sleep, the watch uses heart rate to provide calories burned information and quantify the intensity of your fitness activities.

Match Your Style with Interchangeable Watchbands

A selection of QuickFit bands in your choice of premium leather, metal or silicone makes it easy to mix and match styles to go with any sport or activity. No tools are required to make the transformation. Just swap, click and go.

Advanced Performance Metrics

Every fēnix 5S watch is packed with sophisticated training features to help monitor your form and performance³. Enhanced readouts for Training Status and Training Effect show aerobic and anaerobic benefits of your workout – so you can see how your workouts are paying off and even compare results with your peers. The VO2 max estimator crunches data, including your running speed, beats per minute and heart rate variability, to estimate the maximum volume of oxygen you can consume per minute. And other fitness metrics include recovery advisor with a recovery timer and recovery check, plus a race predictor that estimates your ideal finish time based on your current VO2 max number.

Advanced Running Dynamics

Now you can go further with your running data. Garmin training features that tap into extended physiological metrics and advanced running dynamics¹ can help improve your form and overall performance. These include:

Performance condition: After running for 6-20 minutes, fēnix 5S compares your real-time condition to your average fitness levels
Lactate threshold: Through analysis of your pace and heart rate, fēnix 5S estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue
Cadence — number of steps per minute
Stride length — shows your stride length in real time

Want more? By pairing your watch with a compatible heart rate chest strap such as the HRM-Run™, you can access these additional fēnix 5S metrics³:

Vertical oscillation and ratio — the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the benefit ratio to stride length
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
Stress score: fēnix 5S 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

Swim Profiles, Skiing, Paddle Sports, Golf and More

Beyond their running functions, fenix 5 watches also offer special feature sets to help with swim training, skiing, golfing and paddle sports, including stand-up paddle boarding and rowing. For swimmers, the device tracks your distance, pace, stroke count and more. Ski/Board mode puts speed, distance, vertical drop and an automatic run counter (with Auto Pause for the lift line) and more at your fingertips. The feature set for paddle sports includes stroke count, stroke rate and even distance per stroke. Golf mode gives you yardage to the front, back and middle of the green for any single course you’ve downloaded from Garmin Connect – and also adds enhancements such as stat tracking (fairways hit, etc.), Green View, AutoShot detection and auto measure.

Navigate the Great Outdoors, Your Way

Each model in the fēnix 5 series provides comprehensive navigation and tracking to guide you on and off the beaten path using GPS plus ABC (altimeter, barometer and compass) sensor capabilities. The built-in altimeter provides elevation data to accurately monitor ascent and descent, while the barometer can be used to predict weather changes by showing short-term trends in air pressure. The 3-axis electronic compass keeps your bearing, whether you’re moving or not. In addition, there’s an internal gyroscope to help improve position accuracy (and battery life) in UltraTrac™ mode – as well as a thermometer to help you monitor changing weather conditions.

So Many Ways to Stay Connected

All fēnix 5 series models can support smart notifications when paired with a compatible device. Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch – whether you're on the trail, on the golf course or simply away from your desk. Other connected features include automatic uploads to our Garmin Connect online fitness community, live tracking and social media sharing through our free Garmin Connect and Garmin Connect™ Mobile applications.

Custom Apps and Watch Faces

You can customize your fēnix 5S watch with free downloads from our Connect IQ store. Change your watch face, add data fields or get apps and widgets for information at a glance.

Garmin is continually working with top companies and developers to build partnerships that add even more value to your fēnix multisport watch. Names such as Uber, Strava, AccuWeather and many others offer apps and enhancements that let you tailor your fēnix 5S to fit your lifestyle in more ways than ever.

Wear Your Personality on Your Sleeve

You can also download the free Garmin Face It™ watch face app to customize your fēnix 5S with any photo from your smartphone. Just download the app, choose an image from your photo library, adjust the style for time and set it as your watch’s face. Whether it’s a scenic view from your last hike or a picture of your new puppy, with Garmin you can add personality to your watch that’s uniquely you.

Smooth your inReach mini experience

With ANT+ wireless technology, you can use remote control to view incoming messages, send preset messages, start and stop tracking, and initiate or cancel an SOS on your watch.

¹See Garmin.com/ataccuracy
²When paired with a compatible smartphone; see Garmin.com/BLE
³When paired with heart rate monitor; included with some models, sold separately on others
⁴Activity Tracking Accuracy

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Physical & Performance
Physical dimensions	1.7” x 1.7” x 0.6” (42.0 x 42.0 x 14.5 mm)
Display size	1.1” (27.94 mm) diameter
Display resolution	218 x 218 pixels; sunlight-visible, always-on, low power, colorful display
Color display
Negative mode display
Weight	With silicone band: 2.4 oz (67.0 g)
Battery	Rechargeable lithium-ion
Battery life	Up to 9 days in smartwatch mode (depending on settings), up to 14 hours in GPS mode, and up to 40 hours in UltraTrac™ battery saver mode
Water rating	10 ATM
GPS-enabled
GLONASS
High-sensitivity receiver
Barometric altimeter
Electronic compass
Smart notifications (displays email, text and other alerts when paired with your compatible phone)
Vibration alert
Music control
Find my phone
VIRB® control
Watch functions	Time of day (12/24h), calendar (day/date), daily alarm, stop watch, timer, sunrise/sunset alerts

Maps & Memory
Built-in memory	64 MB; available 37 MB
Custom POIs (ability to add additional points of interest)
Waypoints/favorites/locations	1,000
Routes	30
Track log	200 hours

Running Features
Virtual Pacer™ (compares current pace to target)
V02 max estimate
Recovery advisor
Race predictor
Running dynamics
Accelerometer (calculates distance for indoor workouts, without need for a foot pod)
Personal records

Cycling Features
Compatible with Vector™
Multiple bike profiles
Bike speed/cadence sensor	(optional)

Performance Features
Heart rate monitor	(wrist-based)
Virtual Partner® (train against a digital person)
Virtual Racer™/Race an Activity (compete against other activities)
Courses
Auto Pause® (pauses and resumes timer based on speed)
Auto Lap® (automatically starts a new lap)
Auto Scroll (cycles through data pages during an activity)
Multi-sport (changes sport mode with a press of a button and/or with activity still in progress)
Auto multisport (switch sport modes with 1 button press)
Advanced workouts (create custom workouts)
Pace alert (triggers alarm if you vary from preset pace)
Time/distance alert (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
Interval training (set up exercise and rest intervals)
Heart rate-based calorie computation
Calculates calories burned
Aerobic Training Effect (measures impact of an activity on your fitness)
Customizable screen(s)
Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible 3rd party ANT+™-enabled power meters)

Swimming Features
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
Stroke type identification (e.g. freestyle)
Open water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
Swim workouts

Golfing Features
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
Yardage to layups/doglegs
Digital scorecard

Outdoor Features
Hunt/fish calendar
Sun and moon information
Area calculation

Activity Tracking Features
Step counter
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)

Garmin Connect™
Garmin Connect™ compatible (online community where you analyze, categorize and share data)
Automatic sync (automatically transfers data to Garmin Connect)

Additional

Connect IQ™ app support: Yes (watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
EXO™ antenna (GPS/GLONASS): Yes
Wi-Fi®: Yes (Sapphire versions only)
ANT+®: Yes (all versions)
Bluetooth®: Low Energy (all versions)
Training Effect (measures impact of an activity on your aerobic & anaerobic fitness): Yes
Training Load: Yes
Training Status: Yes
Lactate Threshold: Yes
Weather Alerts: Yes
UltraTrac: Yes
tempe™ sensor support: Yes
TracBack: Yes
Ski features: Yes
Physiological measurements: Yes
SUP/Rowing: Yes
Foot pod: yes (optional)

fenix 5S Sapphire

fēnix 5S Sapphire
Charging/data cable
Documentation

fēnix® 5S

fēnix® 5S

Physical & Performance

Maps & Memory

Running Features

Cycling Features

Performance Features

Swimming Features

Golfing Features

Outdoor Features

Activity Tracking Features

Garmin Connect™

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