Garmin Fenix 8 Solar Sapphire - 51 mm

Multisport smartwatch to support athletes and adventure lovers in pushing their limits, designed to elegantly fit larger wrists, with advanced features for endurance training and diving, built-in speaker and microphone for voice commands, integrated LED flashlight, and a battery lasting up to 48 days thanks to the Power Sapphire™ solar charging lens

Design made for every environment
Designed to last, with a premium design suitable for diving and waterproof buttons. Metal protection to shield sensors and a 1.4" always-on screen with solar charging protected by a sapphire glass lens and titanium bezel. Tested for thermal, shock, and water resistance to meet U.S. military standards.

Built-in speaker and microphone
When paired with a smartphone, it allows you to make and receive calls. Additionally, you can control watch functions with voice commands offline or use the smartphone's voice assistant to reply to text messages and much more.

LED flashlight
The integrated flashlight with variable light intensity and red safety light offers greater visibility in the dark and provides a handy light source when you need it. The strobe mode can also sync with your running cadence.

Advanced strength training
Enhance your body's performance with targeted strength training programs and specific workouts for any type of athlete.

Get to know your body better
Start each day with a customizable morning report and view a summary of health and wellness information. Use the training readiness feature, which reviews a range of health metrics to help you maximize training and recovery efficiency3, helping you prevent overtraining.

Map navigation
With the dynamic round-trip route calculation feature, just enter the distance you want to cover to see suggested possible return routes and get home right on time. You can also view terrain profiles on TopoActive4 maps and access preloaded maps to find golf courses and ski resorts worldwide.

Features

General

• Lens with Power Sapphire solar charging for long-lasting battery
• Up to 48 days of battery life in smartwatch mode
• Speaker and microphone for voice commands and voice memos
• Bright integrated LED flashlight
• Sport-Specific Functional Training
• Wellness and Health Features Active 24/7

Performance Features

• Endurance Score: Using VO2 max, training load, and other factors, this feature measures your ability to sustain prolonged effort.
• Race Predictor: See an estimate of the pace you can maintain for 5K or 10K runs, half marathon, and marathon.
• PacePro™: Plan your race day strategy with pace guidance for specific courses or distances.
• ClimbPro: Get real-time information about climbs and descents during your race.
• Average Pace Adjusted for Grade: View your equivalent running pace on flat ground or uphill.
• Training Readiness: From the moment you wake up, get a training readiness score based on sleep quality2, recovery, Training Load, and more to determine if it’s a good day
• helps you train harder or take it easy.
• Training Status: Get insights to understand if your training is effective, highly intense, or too strenuous.
• Performance Metrics: Measure your performance with advanced training metrics like VO2 max, Training Load, and much more.
• Multisport Auto Transition: This feature detects discipline changes between swimming, cycling, and running in multisport activities, so you can focus on the race and let your watch handle recording splits.
• Hill Score: Measure your uphill running ability and track your progress over time based on VO2 max and training history.
• Daily Recommended Workouts: View a full week of daily recommended exercises that adapt after each run or ride.
• Recovery Time: Find out your recovery time before your next high-intensity workout based on your last session.
• Race Widget: Get ready for your next race with training tips, personalized daily recommended workouts, and more.
• Wrist-based Running Dynamics: View essential running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time, and much more.
• Garmin Coach: Prepare for your next race, train for an important goal, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin Coach and its adaptive or preconfigured training plans.

Activities and Features

• Sports Activities: Use preloaded activity profiles to get information and data for your current activities. You can also select team sports like soccer, football, racket sports, and more.
• Recreational Diving: A 40-meter dive depth and waterproof metal buttons allow diving with our technology, supporting apnea and scuba diving.
• HIIT Workouts: Track HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata, or custom workouts.
• Animated Workouts: Follow animated workouts for cardio, endurance, yoga, and Pilates right on your watch screen.
• Ski Mountaineering and Backcountry Snowboarding: View ascent and descent data along with cadence, stride length, and slope.
• XC Ski Power: Measure exercise load when paired with an HRM-Pro™ Plus heart rate strap (sold separately).
• Surf Activities: Record the waves you ride, top speed, distance traveled, and more. Use Surfline Sessions™ technology to record videos of the waves you catch in front of a Surfline® camera.
• MTB Dynamics: Track your ride details with dedicated Grit® and Flow™ metrics.

Follow Your Route

• Outdoor Maps+: Subscribe to Outdoor Maps+ for access to premium mapping content like satellite imagery and optimized topographic maps, downloadable directly to your watch.
• Satiq™ Technology: Get improved positioning accuracy with multiband GPS while optimizing battery life.
• ABC Sensors: Navigate your next trail with an altimeter, barometer, and 3-axis electronic compass.
• Multi-Continent Topographic Maps: Download TopoActive maps worldwide via Wi-Fi®. Easy download and quick updates even without using a PC.
• Nextfork™ Navigation: Easily follow your chosen trail at a glance and see the distance to the next intersection and the trail name.
• Up Ahead: Get enhanced awareness of points of interest, refreshment spots, checkpoints, and more.
• Turn-by-Turn Routes: Create or find existing routes from the Garmin Connect™ smartphone app, or sync your favorite third-party platforms and get turn-by-turn directions.
• SkiView™ Maps: View trail names and difficulty ratings for more than 2,000 preloaded ski resorts worldwide.
• Golf Course Maps: Access full-color CourseView maps with over 43,000 international golf courses.

Health Features

• Morning report: Get an overview of your sleep, training as soon as you wake up, heart rate variability, weather conditions, and more.
• HRV status: Gain better insight into your health, recovery, and training performance during sleep.
• Wrist heart rate: The smartwatch continuously records your heart rate2 to help assess exercise intensity during activities.
• Pulse Ox sensor: Monitor blood oxygen saturation during the day or night and see how you’re adapting to altitude4.
• Sleep coach: Get a sleep score and personalized coaching that tells you how much sleep you need. Track sleep stages and get detailed insights to improve sleep quality2.
• Nap detection: Automatically track your naps to see how they affect your body and calculate recommended rest time.
• Jet lag adviser: Minimize jet lag effects with guidance on light exposure, sleep scheduling, and physical activity.
• Body Battery™: Monitor your body to see energy levels and know the best times to train and rest2.
• Stress tracking: Find out if your day is calm, balanced, or stressful.
• Health snapshot: With a 2-minute session, you can record key health stats and generate a report to share with your doctor.
• Breathing: Learn about your breathing patterns, both day and night.
• Hydration: Log your daily fluid intake to remind you to stay properly hydrated.
• Heat and altitude acclimation: See how your body responds to current heat or altitude by viewing health metrics.
• Menstrual cycle and pregnancy: Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition advice.

Connected features

• Garmin Connect app: View health and fitness information, connect with friends, and much more.
• Garmin Messenger™ app: Communicate directly from your wrist with two-way text messaging5.
• Smart notification: When paired with your iPhone® or Android™ smartphone, you can receive emails, messages, and alerts directly on the smartwatch.
• Music: Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, or Amazon Music accounts (subscription may be required) and use wireless headphones to listen without using your phone.
• Contactless payments: Speed up payments with participating providers.
• Garmin sharing: Use this feature to easily share saved locations, routes, and workouts with your friends' compatible Garmin devices.
• Detection and safety features: If you don't feel safe or if the watch detects an incident, it sends a message with your real-time location.
• Stock tracking: Monitor your favorite stocks up to a maximum of 507, directly from your wrist.
• Connect IQ™ Store: Add watch faces, data fields, and apps from your connected smartphone.
• Power manager: See how different settings and sensors affect the watch's battery life.

Technical Specifications

• Strap material: Silicone
• Lens material: Power Sapphire™
• Color: Titanium, Carbon Gray DLC & Black
• Bezel material: Titanium
• Case material: Fiber-reinforced polymers with metal back cover
• Compatible with QuickFit™ straps: Included (26 mm)
• Case dimensions: 51 x 51 x 15.4 mm; For wrists with the following circumference:; Silicone strap: 127-210 mm; UltraFit strap: 127-225 mm; Leather strap: 135-213 mm; Metal strap: 135-225 mm
• Manufacturer weight: 95 g (case only: 67 g)
• Sealed inductive buttons 
• Case and built-in microphone 
• Display size: Diameter 35.56 mm (1.4")
• Display resolution: 280 x 280 pixels
• Color display 
• Large font option 
• Battery life: Smartwatch: up to 30 days/48 days with solar energy*; Smartwatch mode with power saving: up to 48 days/107 days with solar energy*; GPS only: up to 95 hours/149 hours with solar energy; All satellite systems: up to 68 hours/92 hours with solar energy*; All satellite systems + Multiband: up to 52 hours or 65 hours with solar energy***; All satellite systems + Music: up to 18 hours; Max battery GPS: up to 186 hours/653 hours with solar energy**; GPS Expedition: up to 50 days/118 days with solar energy*; *Solar charging, worn all day, 3 hours per day outdoors in 50,000 lux lighting conditions; **Solar charging, use in 50,000 lux conditions; ***Solar charging, with use in 50,000 lux conditions; with typical SatIQ technology use
• Charging method: Garmin proprietary charger
• Memory/history: 32 GB

Included

• fēnix® 8 Smartwatch (51 mm, solar charging)
• Charging/Data Cable
• Documentation