Which Garmin watch should you buy on Amazon Prime Day? Here are my top 3 picks

Garmin MARQ Athlete (Gen 2)
(Image credit: Future)

Amazon Prime Day has been officially announced, and early deals are beginning to pop up. Leading up to July 11 and 12, we’re expecting to see some great discounts on lots of wearables and other health and fitness tech, including some of the best Garmin watches.

Garmin watches are excellent health and fitness companions if you’re into exercises such as running, cycling, swimming, hiking, skiing, golfing… practically any exercise where you’re traveling from place to place outdoors can benefit from a Garmin watch’s GPS and health information. Movement trackers for golf swings, maps of the alpine slopes for skiing, and sophisticated ways to detect your foot stride distance on a run - these watches have it all. 

There’s a huge range of Garmin watches available, so there’s one for every level of fitness, from the best cheap smartwatches for complete beginners and people who enjoy running a couple of times a week, to very expensive GPS watches designed for professional triathletes. Some of the cheaper watches won’t have all the features listed above, so you’ll need to pick and choose which one is right for you. 

Fortunately, we often see big discounts across the Garmin range during the Amazon Prime Day period, and this year is shaping up to be no different. Below are the three watches I recommend keeping an eye out for during Amazon Prime Day

1. Garmin Venu 2

Incoming phone call on Garmin Venu 2 Plus with phone number blurred

(Image credit: Future)

The Garmin Venu 2 is top of our best Garmin watches list, a perfect balance between a versatile everyday smartwatch and powerful training tool. It’s a perfect all-rounder GPS watch, perhaps unsuited for professional orienteers and elites, but perfect for weekend warriors who love to go camping, running, or wild swimming, while still having that usable Apple Watch-style wearable you’re able to wear to work every day. It’s a great watch in every respect, so much so that we gave it five stars, and crucially, it’s now a couple of years old.

The Garmin Venu 2 originally retailed at $399.99 / £349.99 / AU$629, but it can often be found for much less. It’s usually older watches that get significant discounts over the Prime Day period as Amazon makes way for new stock, so you have an opportunity to get one of Garmin’s best watches ever at potentially its lowest price ever, which would be a doozy of a deal. 

2. Garmin Forerunner 55

Garmin Forerunner 55

(Image credit: Future)

When I get asked by readers and friends what they should get as “a fitnessy watch for beginners” I usually ask them what kind of exercise they’re looking to start off with. If they mention jogging, then my recommendation is either an Apple Watch or, if they’re on Android, the Garmin Forerunner 55

This is a simple, cheap, well-made GPS watch with a battery that lasts ages and tells you everything you need to know about your runs, step counts, calorie burn, sleep, and recovery. As the name implies, it’s a running-specific watch and works well for the purpose, and you could quite happily wear this watch from your first 5K all the way up to your first half-marathon and beyond. 

First launched at $199.99 / £179.99 / AU$329, it’s usually found cheaper than that now, and I predict you’ll able to get one in the sales for a hair over half price.

3. Garmin Epix (Gen 2)

The Garmin Epix Gen 2 sports watch on a grey background

(Image credit: Garmin)

This is the other end of the spectrum. If you’re an elite outdoors athlete, you need kit to match. The Garmin Epix (Gen 2) is the Garmin Fenix 7, an elite high-performance watch with massive battery life and sophisticated GPS tools, with a beautiful full-color AMOLED screen designed to be bright in all weather conditions. 

Now that the Garmin Epix Pro and Garmin Fenix 7 Pro have been unveiled we’re expecting a knock to the price of last year’s non-Pro model in the Amazon Prime Day sales. Just as well, as the watch ordinarily costs around $899.99 / £799.99 / AU$1,399 - although, on Prime Day, bigger prices mean bigger discounts. A great one to snap up and use for your summer training plan.  

Shop the early Amazon Prime Day sales here:

TOPICS
Matt Evans
Fitness, Wellness, and Wearables Editor

Matt is TechRadar's expert on all things fitness, wellness and wearable tech. A former staffer at Men's Health, he holds a Master's Degree in journalism from Cardiff and has written for brands like Runner's World, Women's Health, Men's Fitness, LiveScience and Fit&Well on everything fitness tech, exercise, nutrition and mental wellbeing.

Matt's a keen runner, ex-kickboxer, not averse to the odd yoga flow, and insists everyone should stretch every morning. When he’s not training or writing about health and fitness, he can be found reading doorstop-thick fantasy books with lots of fictional maps in them.

Read more
Garmin Venu 2 and Forerunner 265 on TechRadar background
The best Garmin watch 2025: Multisport watches for outdoor athletes
Garmin Instinct 2 on woody background
The Garmin Instinct 3 just landed, but the Instinct 2 is a better buy this President's Day
Garmin Venu 3S
One of the best Garmin smartwatches is back to its lowest-ever price
Garmin Fenix 8 vs Enduro 3 comparison
Garmin Fenix 8 vs Garmin Enduro 3: Which premium Garmin is best?
Garmin Forerunner 55 on TR background
The best cheap running watches for 2025
Garmin Foreurnner 265 on TechRadar background
The best running watch 2025: Top GPS watches for runners of every level
Latest in Health & Fitness
Apple Watch Series 9 with Snoopy
Please, Apple, don't add a camera to the Apple Watch – it's not the change we're hoping for
Apple Watch Ultra 2 timer
The Apple Watch is getting a sleep alarm upgrade it probably should have had 10 years ago
Google Pixel Watch 3
Google Pixel Watches hit with delayed notifications, crashing, and performance issues following Wear OS 5.1 update
23andMe
23andMe is bankrupt and about to sell your DNA, here's how to stop that from happening
Apple Watch Ultra 2 move data
Apple is reportedly planning a huge future Apple Watch upgrade to turn it into an AI device with onboard cameras
Apple watch pair with iphone
The Apple Watch SE 3 is apparently in 'serious jeopardy', and the news isn't much better for the Ultra 3 or Series 11
Latest in Features
Saily eSIM by Nord Security
"Much more than just an eSIM service" - I spoke to the CEO of Saily about the future of travel and its impact on secure eSIM technology
A collage image showing images from the TV shows The White Lotus on Max, Black Mirror on Netflix and The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu.
I'm pausing my Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Paramount+ subscriptions in April 2025 – here are the 3 streaming services I'm keeping instead
Gemini on a smartphone.
Gemini is pulling ahead of ChatGPT – combining Deep Research with Audio Overviews is one of the best uses of AI I’ve seen so far
The Rookie
The Rookie is Hulu's #1 show – here are 3 police procedural dramas with over 80% on Rotten Tomatoes to watch next
Grok Image Edits
I tried Grok’s new AI image editing features – they’re fun but won’t replace Photoshop any time soon
Intel Core Ultra PCs
“No matter who you are, what you do, what form factor you choose” - how Intel is bringing AI advantage and unrivaled security to every industry and ecosystem