Garmin Instinct 2X Solar - Rugged GPS Smartwatch

This big, rugged GPS smartwatch is tough enough to keep up with you and bold enough to fit your style. Its expansive solar charging lens keeps a larger battery going longer—powering advanced training features, a built-in flashlight, multi-band GNSS, health/wellness monitoring sensors, and much more.

Keep your experiences going with unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode with solar charging.

Train your way with built-in sports apps at the wrist.

When it gets dark, the built-in LED flashlight helps keep you going.

Stay connected with smart notifications so you don’t miss out on what matters.

Understand your body better with 24/7 health monitoring.

Engineered for Endurance

This ultratough watch features a solar-charged display and rugged 50 mm polymer case. It’s water-rated to 100 meters and tested to U.S. military 810 standards for thermal, shock, and water resistance.

Designed to Do You

With a design built for action and the features to support your high-energy lifestyle, this watch is always ready for adventure. Plus, its bold styling clearly shows the world that you do things your own way.

Get More Battery Out of Life

Go longer than ever with solar charging, offering unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode. Plus, power manager lets you extend battery life by controlling what settings and sensors draw power.

Solar Powered

Solar charging Power Glass™ lens extends battery life, producing 50% more energy than the Instinct® 2 Solar, potentially offering unlimited solar-charged battery life in smartwatch mode.

Built-In Flashlight

To help guide your way in low-light conditions, a built-in multi-LED flashlight provides variable intensities and strobe that matches your running cadence, along with a red safety light mode to help keep an eye on your nighttime surroundings.

Multi-Band Frequency Support

Receive and utilize multiple frequencies sent by navigation satellites, enabling improved user position accuracy, especially in areas where GNSS signals are reflected, weak, or typically do not penetrate.

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.

Reference Point

Keep track of a known place—such as your car or the trailhead—relative to your location, and easily find your way back to it.

Live Connected

Receive emails, texts, and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone.

Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app on your compatible smartphone.

Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payments through participating providers.

If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features can send a message with your location to your emergency contacts when paired with your compatible smartphone.

Easily see your plans for the day with a dedicated calendar screen when paired with your compatible smartphone.

See your health and fitness information all in one place. The Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect, compete, and share.

Train Your Way

Do whatever you love with preloaded activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming, strength training, indoor climbing, skiing, snowboarding, golf, yoga, Pilates, and more.

Track your performance during obstacle course events — with split times recorded between running and obstacle sections while you race. After manually recording splits during your first loop, you can focus solely on the race from there as splits will be automatically recorded. Then, review your stats after the race.

This activity profile tracks your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata, and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals, and more.

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.

View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run or ride to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect smartphone app calendar.

Know Your Body

Get 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.

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.

Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see.

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.

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.

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training, and recovery through heart rate variability while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.