Garmin Venu 3S

What You'll Love

Sleep Score and Insights

Yes

Battery life (smartwatch mode)

Up to 10 days

Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation

Yes (spot-check, and optionally all-day and in sleep)

Garmin Pay™

Yes

Music storage

Yes

Make calls and send texts via voice

Yes

Watch display type

AMOLED Optional Always-On Mode

Touchscreen

Yes

Water rating

Swim, 5 ATM

Wheelchair mode

Yes

General

Strap material

Silicone

Lens material

Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3

Bezel material

Stainless steel

Case material

Fibre-reinforced polymer

Quick release bands

Yes (18 mm, Industry standard)

Physical size

41 x 41 x 12 mm

Fits wrists with a circumference of 110-175 mm

Weight

Silicone : 40 g with included band

Leather : 34 g with included band

Built-in speaker/microphone

Yes

Display Size

30.4 mm (1.2″) diameter

Display Resolution

390 x 390 pixels

Colour display

Yes

Large font option

Yes

Battery life

Smartwatch mode: Up to 10 days

Battery saver smartwatch mode: Up to 20 days

GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 21 hours

All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 15 hours

All systems GNSS mode with music playback Up to 8 hours

See details

Charging method

Garmin proprietary plug charger

Memory/history

8 GB

Clock features

Time/date

yes

GPS time sync

Yes

Automatic daylight saving time

Yes

Alarm clock

Yes

Timer

Yes

Stopwatch

Yes

Sunrise/sunset times

Yes

Health & Wellness Monitoring

Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)

Yes

Daily Resting Heart Rate

Yes

Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts

Yes (high and low)

Respiration Rate (24x7)

Yes

Fitness Age

Yes

Body Battery™ Energy Monitor

Yes

All-day Stress

Yes

Relaxation reminders

Yes

Relaxation Breathing Timer

Yes

Meditation

Yes

Breathwork

Yes

Sleep

Yes (Advanced)

Sleep coach

Yes

Nap detection 

Yes

Hydration

Yes

Women's Health

Yes

Health Snapshot

Yes

Skin temperature

Yes

JET LAG ADVISER

Yes

Sensors

GPS

Yes

GLONASS

Yes

Galileo

Yes

Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor

Yes

Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor

Yes

Barometric altimeter

Yes

Compass

Yes

Gyroscope

Yes

Accelerometer

Yes

Thermometer

Yes (tempe™ sensor required)

Ambient light sensor

Yes

Daily smart features

Connectivity

Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®

Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)

Yes

On-device Connect IQ™ Store

Yes

Smart Notifications

Yes

Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)

Yes

View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only)

Yes

Morning report

Yes

Calendar

Yes

Weather forecasts

Yes

Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile

Yes

Battery Saver - customisable low power watch

Yes

Controls smartphone music

Yes

Plays and controls watch music

Yes

Find my phone

Yes

Find my watch

Yes

Find My Phone during GPS activity

Yes

Compatible with Garmin Messenger app

Yes

Smart trainer control

Yes

Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile

Yes

Smartphone compatibility

iPhone®, Android™

BLUETOOTH phone calling and voice assistant support

Yes

Red shift mode

Yes

Activity profiles

Gym

Strength, HIIT, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor rowing, Jump Roping

WELLNESS

Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking

INDOOR RUNNING

Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running

Outdoor running

Running

Outdoor recreation

Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Disc Golf

Cycling

Biking, Indoor Biking, Handcycling, Indoor Handcycling, eBiking

Swim

Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming

On the water

Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing

Racket sports

Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball

Snow & Winter

Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing, XC Classic Skiing

Sport profiles

Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball

In the ring

Boxing, Mixed martial arts

Safety and tracking features

Incident Detection during select activities

Yes

Incident detection alert on phone for wearables

Yes

Assistance

Yes

LiveTrack

Yes

Gaming Features

Gaming activity

Yes

GameOn™ app compatible

Yes

Activity tracking features

Step counter

Yes

Push tracker

Yes

Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)

Yes

Weight shift alert 

Yes

Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)

Yes

Calories Burned

Yes

Floors climbed

Yes

Distance travelled

Yes

Intensity minutes

Yes

TrueUp™

Yes

Move IQ™

Yes

Garmin Connect™ Challenges app

Yes

Fitness equipment/gym

Cardio workouts

Yes

Strength workouts

Yes

HIIT workouts

Yes

Yoga workouts

Yes

Pilates workouts

Yes

Workouts for wheelchair users 

Yes

On-screen workout animations

Yes

On-Screen Workout Muscle Map

Yes

Automatic rep counting

Yes

Training, planning and analysis features

Customisable screen(s)

Yes

Downloadable training plans

Yes

HR Zones

Yes

HR Alerts

Yes

HR Calories

Yes

% HR Max

Yes

Recovery Time

Yes

HRV Status

Yes

HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices)

Yes (using ANT+ or BLE)

Respiration Rate (During Exercise)

yoga, breathwork and meditation only

GPS speed and distance

Yes

Customisable activity profiles

Yes

Auto Pause®

Yes

Interval training

Yes

Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection)

Yes

Advanced workouts

Yes

HRM running pace and distance

Yes

Auto Lap®

Yes

Manual lap

Yes

VO2 Max (Run)

Yes

Workout benefit

Yes

Audio prompts

Yes

Touch and/or button lock

Yes

Auto scroll

Yes

Activity history on watch

Yes

Physio TrueUp

Yes

Running features

GPS-based distance, time and pace

Yes

Running dynamics

Yes

Vertical oscillation and ratio

Yes

Ground contact time and balance

Yes (GCT balance with accessory)

Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)

Yes

Running power

Yes

Run workouts

Yes

Foot pod capable

Yes

Run/Walk/Stand detection

Yes

Golfing features

Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)

Yes

Yardage to layups/doglegs

Yes

Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)

Automatic

Digital scorecard

yes

Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)

Yes

Garmin AutoShot™

Yes

Green View with manual pin position

Yes

Hazards and course targets

Yes

PinPointer

Yes

Round timer/odometer

Yes

Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)

Yes

Pairs with Garmin Golf app

Yes

Tournament legal

Yes

Outdoor recreation

Back to start

Yes

Total ascent/descent

Yes

Area calculation

Yes (via Connect IQ™)

Fish forecast

Yes (via Connect IQ™)

Sun and moon information

Yes (via Connect IQ™)

Cycling features

Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)

Yes

Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters)

Yes

Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)

Yes

Compatible with Varia™ lights

Yes

Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)

Yes (using ANT+ or BLE)

Power meter compatible

Yes

Swimming features

Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)

Yes

Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)

Yes

Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)

Yes

Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)

Yes

Auto rest (pool swim only)

Yes

Time and distance alerts

Yes

Time and distance alerts

Yes

Underwater wrist-based heart rate

Yes

Languages

Device languages

Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (EU), Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (International), Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Security Information

Security updates until at least (YYYY-MM-DD)

2025-08-30