Fenix 7X – Solar Edition - Slate grey with black band - Bluetooth / ANT+ / Wi-Fi
Go longer. Get. stronger. Seven days a week.
Meet any athletic or outdoor challenge with the rugged fēnix 7X Solar multisport GPS watch. Its Power Glass™ solar charging lens uses the sun’s energy to extend battery life — powering advanced training features, sports apps, health and wellness monitoring sensors and more.
Key Features:
- Get a battery boost from the sunlight, so you can go longer between charges.
- Do more. Charge less. Solar charging yields up to 37 days of battery life in smartwatch mode.
- How is your body holding up? Wrist-based heart rate1 and Pulse Ox will let you know.
- Run and ride - it’s what you do. Tracking all your stats - it’s what we do.
- Keep great tunes coming with music on your wrist - and no phone to weigh you down.
- When it gets dark, the built-in LED flashlight helps keep you going.
Solar charged battery
Get up to 28 days of battery life in smartwatch mode with an additional 9 days when solar charging - and up to 89 hours in GPS mode with an additional 33 hours when solar charging.
Performance by design
Updated, ultratough athletic design features a large 1.4" solar charged display and 51 mm case. The multisport watch is tested to U.S. military standards for thermal, shock and water resistance.
Touchscreen and buttons
Trusted button controls that work in any environment are matched with a responsive new touchscreen interface for quick access to selections and functions.
Other Features:
Physical size
- Fits wrists with the following circumference:
- Silicone band: 127-210 mm
- Leather band: 135-213 mm
- Fabric band: 135-213 mm
- Metal band: 135-225 mm
Battery life
- Smartwatch: Up to 28 days/37 days with solar
- Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 90 days/ 1+ year with solar
- GPS Only: Up to 89 hours/122 hours with solar
- All Satellite Systems: Up to 63 hours/77 hours with solar
- All Satellite Systems and Music: Up to 16 hours
- Max Battery GPS: Up to 213 hours/ 578 hours with solar
- Expedition GPS: Up to 62 days/ 139 days with solar
- Solar charging, assuming all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions
- Solar charging, assuming use in 50,000 lux conditions
Clock features
- Time/date
- Gps time sync
- Automatic daylight saving time
- Alarm clock
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Sunrise/sunset times
Health monitoring
- Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)
- Daily resting heart rate
- Abnormal heart rate alerts - Yes (High and low)
- Respiration rate (24x7)
- Pulse OX blood oxygen saturation
- Fitness age - Yes (In app)
- Body battery energy monitor
- All-day stress tracking
- Relaxation breathing timer
- Sleep - Yes (Advanced)
- Sleep score and insights
- Hydration - Yes (In Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget)
- Women's health - Yes (In Garmin Connect and optional Connect IQ widget)
- Health snapshot
- Jet lag adviser
Sensors
- GPS
- Glonass
- Galileo
- Garmin elevate wrist heart rate monitor
- Barometric altimeter
- Compass
- Gyroscope
- Accelerometer
- Thermometer
- Pulse OX blood oxygen saturation monitor
Daily smart features
- Connectivity - Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi
- Connect IQ (Downloadable watch faces, Data fields, Widgets and Apps)
- On-device connect IQ store
- Smart notifications
- Text response/Reject phone call with text (Android only)
- Calendar
- Weather
- Realtime settings sync with garmin connect™ mobile
- Battery saver - customisable low power watch
- Controls smartphone music
- Plays and controls watch music
- Music storage
- Find my phone
- Find my watch
- VIRB camera remote
- Pairs with garmin golf app
- Compatible with Garmin connect mobile
- Stocks
- Garmin Pay
Safety and tracking features
- Livetrack
- Group livetrack
- Live event sharing
- Incident detection during select activities
- Incident detection alert on phone for wearables
- Assistance
Tactical features
Activity tracking features
- Step counter
- Move bar (Displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)
- Auto goal (Learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
- Calories burned
- Floors climbed
- Distance travelled
- Intensity minutes
- Trueup
- Move IQ
- Garmin connect challenges app - Yes (Optional Connect IQ app)
Fitness equipment/Gym
- Automatic rep counting
- Cardio workouts
- Available gym activity profiles - Strength, HIIT, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates and Yoga
- Strength workouts
- Hiit workouts
- Yoga workouts
- Pilates workouts
- On-screen workout animations
- On-screen workout muscle maps
Training, planning and analysis features
- HR zones
- HR alerts
- HR calories
- % HR max
- % HRR
- Recovery time
- Auto max HR
- Morning report
- Race glance/widget
- HRV status
- Training readiness
- HRV stress test (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) - Yes (with compatible accessory)
- HR broadcast (broadcasts hr data over ant+™ to paired devices)
- Respiration rate (during exercise) - Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Gps speed and distance
- Customisable screen(s)
- Customisable activity profiles
- Auto Pause
- Interval training
- Advanced workouts
- Downloadable training plans
- Power modes - customisable in-activity battery settings
- Hrm running pace and distance
- Auto Lap
- Manual Lap
- Configurable lap alerts
- Heat and altitude acclimation
- VO2 max (Run)
- VO2 max (Trail run)
- Realtime stamina
- Training status (Lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend) - Improved
- Training load (Your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated epoc)
- Training load focus
- Training effect (Aerobic)
- Training effect (Anaerobic)
- Primary benefit (Training effect labels)
- Improved recovery time
- Daily suggested workouts - Improved
- Customisable alerts
- Audio prompts
- Finish time
- Virtual partner
- Race an activity
- Auto multisport activities
- Multi-sport
- Course guidance
- Garmin live segments
- Strava live segments
- Round-trip course creator (Running/Cycling)
- Trendline popularity routing
- Touch and/or button lock
- Hot keys
- Auto scroll
- Activity history on watch
- Physio trueup
- Unified training status
Running features
- Available run profiles - Running, Track Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running, Virtual Running, Ultra Running
- GPS-based distance, time and pace
- Running dynamics - Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Vertical oscillation and ratio - Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Ground contact time and balance - Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Stride length (Real time) - Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Cadence (Provides real-time number of steps per minute)
- Running power
- Grade-adjusted pace
- Performance condition
- Lactate threshold - Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Pacepro pacing strategies
- Run workouts
- Trail run auto climb
- Race predictor
- Foot pod capable
- Run/Walk/Stand detection
Golfing features
- Preloaded with 42,000 courses worldwide
- Yardage to F/M/B (Distance to front, Middle and Back of green)
- Yardage to layups/doglegs
- Measures shot distance (Calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) - Automatic
- Digital scorecard
- Custom targets
- Stat tracking (Strokes, Putts per round, Greens and Fairways hit)
- Garmin Autoshot
- Full vector map
- Auto courseview updates
- Green view with manual pin position
- Hazards and course targets
- Pinpointer
- Playslike distance
- Touch-targeting (Touch target on display to see the distance to any point)
- Handicap scoring
- Round timer/Odometer
- Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)
- Wind speed and direction (Requires connection to the golf app)
- Virtual caddie
- Tournament legal
- Green contours (With garmin golf membership)
Outdoor recreation
- Available outdoor recreation profiles - Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Hunting, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Snowshoeing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Jumpmaster, Tennis, Pickleball, Tactical, Disc Golf, tennis
- Point-to-point navigation
- Bread crumbtrail in real time
- Back to start
- Tracback
- Ultratrac mode
- Around me mode
- Reference point
- Up ahead
- Nextfork navigation
- Elevation profile
- Distance to destination
- Barometric trend indicator with storm alert
- Climbpro ascent planner
- Vertical speed
- Total ascent/Descent
- Rest timer (Ultra run only)
- Auto rest
- Future elevation plot
- Preloaded ski resort maps
- Downloadable cartography support
- Gps coordinates
- Sight 'N Go
- Area calculation - Yes (via Connect IQ)
- Hunt/Fish calendar - Yes (via Connect IQ)
- Projected waypoint
- Sun and moon information - Yes (via Connect IQ)
- Xero locations
- Expedition gps activity
- Tides - Yes (via Connect IQ)
- Tides glance
Cycling features
- Garmin cycle map (Routable cycling-specific street map)
- Available cycling profiles - Bike, Road Bike, MTB, Gravel Bike, Cyclocross, Bike Commute, Bike Tour, eBike, eMTB, Bike Indoor, Triathlon
- Alerts (Triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, Distance, Heart rate or calories)
- Courses
- Power guide
- Mtb grit & flow
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (With power sensor)
- Race an activity
- Ftp (Functional threshold power) - Yes (with compatible accessory)
- Power curve and ftp workouts
- Compatible with Vector and Rally (Power meters)
- Power meter compatible
- Advanced cycling dynamics
- Compatible with Varia Vision (Head-mounted display)
- Compatible with Varia radar (Rear-facing radar)
- Compatible with Varia lights
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)
Swimming features
- Available swim profiles - Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running
- Open-water swim metrics (Distance, Pace, Stroke count/rate, Stroke Distance, Swim efficiency (swolf), Calories)
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (swolf), calories)
- Stroke type detection (Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly (Pool swim only)
- Drill logging (Pool swim only)
- Basic rest timer (Up from 0) (Pool swim only)
- "Repeat On" rest timer (pool swim only)
- Auto rest (pool swim only)
- Time and distance alerts
- Pacing alerts (pool swim only)
- Countdown start
- Pool swim workouts
- Critical swim speed
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate
- Heart rate from external hrm (Real-time during rests, Interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) - Yes (with HRM-Tri, HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro or HRM-Pro Plus)
Kid activity tracking features
- TOE-TO-TOE Challenges App - Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe Challenges app)
Connectivity
Transform exertion into exhilaration.
Built-in sports apps
Use preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing, surfing, indoor climbing and more.
Backcountry skiing and snowboarding
Stay informed when you’re backcountry skiing or snowboarding. Track your passion for powder, and get the data you need to analyse your efforts on the way up and down.
XC SKI dynamics
When paired with the hrm-pro™ heart rate monitor (sold separately), the ski power metric helps measure the actual exercise load of your cross-country workouts.
Surf-ready features
Get ready to catch some waves. This fenix multisport watch works with the surfline sessions™ feature, which creates a video of every wave you ride in front of a surfline® camera4. So you can watch them later and see how you did with your surfline sessions subscription.
MTB dynamics
Track the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics plus specialised grit™ and flow™ measurements that rate trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend, giving you a score to beat next time.
HIIT workouts
This activity profile tracks your high-intensity interval training workouts, including amrap, emom, tabata and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals and more.
Daily suggested workout
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.
Visual race predictor
Based on your running history and overall fitness level, this feature provides an estimate of what your pace could be for the distance you want to run. Trend data shows how your training is having an impact over time.
Pacepro technology
A first-of-its-kind pacepro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.
Climbpro feature
Use the climbpro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain — as well as descents and flats.
Grade-adjusted pace
Don’t run out of steam before the activity is over. After configuring your data fields in the running activity, understand how to adjust your pace over varying terrain to perform according to your plan.
Performance metrics
View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics, heat- and altitude-adjusted vo2 max, trail running adjustment, recovery advisor and more.
Real-time stamina
Use this real-time stamina data to track and manage your exertion — and help avoid overexerting at the start of your run or bike.
Recovery time advisor
After each workout, recovery time lets you know when you’ll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep.
Race widget
Get ready for your next race with training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on course details, weather and performance.
Wrist-based running power
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory required.
HRV status
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.
Training status
Using new indicators such as hrv status, your recent exercise history and performance, get insight into your overall effort — and whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.
Training readiness
From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.
Navigate on or off the beaten path.
Built-in flashlight
To help guide your way in low-light conditions, a built-in multi-led flashlight provides quick access to a bright, steady beam of illumination.
Nextfork map guide
Easily navigate while you’re out on the trail with a quick glance. See the distance to the next trail intersection as well as the name of the upcoming trail.
ABC sensors
Navigate your next trail with abc sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis electronic compass.
Golf course maps
Access full-colour courseview maps for more than 42,000 golf courses around the world, and get button targeting and the playslike distance feature.
Skiview maps
Take on the slopes with preloaded skiview maps, and view run names and difficulty ratings for more than 2,000 ski resorts worldwide.
Multicontinent topoactive maps
Download topoactive maps from around the world to keep your explorations on track. Use built-in wi-fi® connectivity to easily load and update maps and software without using a computer.
Up ahead
Get at-a-glance awareness for selected poi checkpoints ahead. View performance metrics, split times and distance/elevation — plus a summary of key trail points coming up.
Power manager
View how various settings and sensors impact your watch’s battery life, so you can make battery-extending changes on the fly.
Know your body better with 24/7 wellness tracking.
Morning report
Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside hrv status, training readiness and weather. Customise your report to see the data you want.
Wrist-based heart rate
Optical heart rate technology gauges activity intensity as well as heart rate variability to calculate your stress level. It also tracks underwater without a heart rate strap.
Pulse OX sensor
For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a pulse ox2 sensor uses light beams at your wrist to gauge how well your body is absorbing oxygen.
Sleep score and advanced sleep monitoring
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.
Body battery energy monitoring
Optimise 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.
Respiration tracking
See how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork and yoga activities.
Health snapshot feature
Log a 2-minute session to record key stats, including heart rate1, heart rate variability, pulse ox2, respiration and stress. Then generate a report with those stats to share via the garmin connect™ app on your compatible smartphone.
Hydration tracking
Log daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated. When auto goal is enabled, you’ll even see estimated sweat loss after an activity, and your goal will adjust accordingly.
Stay connected with your life on the go.
Smart notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible device.
Music apps
Download songs plus playlists from your spotify, deezer or amazon music accounts (subscription may be required). Use wireless headphones (sold separately) for phone-free listening.
Garmin pay contactless payments
Breeze through checkout lines with garmin pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
Stock tracker
Keep track of up to 50 of your favourite stocks7— right from your wrist — with the stocks app. Easily check your stocks at a glance to monitor their prices and trends throughout the day.
Safety and tracking features
When your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or — during select outdoor activities — automatically with built-in incident detection6.
Connect IQ store
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the connect iq store on your compatible smartphone.
In the Box:
- fēnix 7X – Solar Edition
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation
