Garmin · 2022
Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical EditionSize, Dimensions & Wrist Fit
The Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition sits best on flat wrist widths of about 47–64mm (≈ 12.6–17.1cm wrist circumference). Adjust the slider below to check your wrist.
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The Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition in short
The figures that decide whether this watch suits you, pulled out of the full specification sheet further down.
- Between 30 hours and 65 days per charge depending on the power mode — battery saver at best, gps at worst.
- Water rated to 10 ATM.
- 14.6mm thick. Thicker than 82% of 45mm watches — it will sit noticeably high on the wrist.
- custom, two-window design; 0.9” x 0.9” (23 x 23 mm) Monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) display.
- Takes 22mm bands, so third-party straps fit without an adapter.
Does the Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition fit your wrist?
Drag the slider to your wrist width and see the Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition overlaid at true scale. Lug-to-lug — not case diameter — decides whether a watch overhangs your wrist.
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The Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition drawn to scale — from above, and in profile against the wrist.
- Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition45mm · 14.6mm thick
3D preview
Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition on a wrist
On an arm sized to your own wrist — the view a product photo never gives you.
Shapes are built from published measurements, not manufacturer 3D models — accurate proportions, generic dial.
How long the Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition lasts, by power mode
Runtime changes by a factor of 52 depending on what you leave switched on. Bars are scaled against the longest mode.
without sunlightwith solar charging
- Battery Saver65 days
- Expedition GPS Activity32 days
- Smartwatch28 days
- Max Battery GPS70 hours · 370 hours solar
- GPS30 hours · 48 hours 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
How the Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition ranks on battery
Against the 268 Garmin watches in our database, ranked on each figure Garmin publishes.
- Everyday use28 days#32 of 257
- GPS tracking30 hours#92 of 233
- Power save65 days#26 of 106
What size band does the Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition take?
Lug width
22mm
Any 22mm strap fits, so you are not restricted to Garmin's own bands. Quick-release pins let you swap without tools — check that a replacement lists 22mm and quick-release before buying.
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Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition specifications
The figures that decide a purchase, followed by every line Garmin publishes.
- Battery life
- Smartwatch: Up to 28 days/Unlimited with solar* Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 65 days/Unlimited with solar* GPS: Up to 30 hours/48 hours with solar** Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 70 hours/370 hours with solar** Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 32 days/Unlimited 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
- Display
- custom, two-window design; 0.9” x 0.9” (23 x 23 mm)
- Resolution
- 176 x 176 pixels
- Water rating
- 10 ATM
- Case material
- fiber-reinforced polymer
- Bezel
- fiber-reinforced polymer
- Glass
- Power Glass™
- Strap
- silicone
- Storage
- 32 MB
- Charging
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
Full specification sheet
224 published lines across 21 groups, unedited
Overview
- Family
- Garmin
General
- Battery life
- Smartwatch: Up to 28 days/Unlimited with solar* Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 65 days/Unlimited with solar* GPS: Up to 30 hours/48 hours with solar** Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 70 hours/370 hours with solar** Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 32 days/Unlimited 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
- Battery type
- Lithium ion
- Display Size
- custom, two-window design; 0.9” x 0.9” (23 x 23 mm)
- Case material
- fiber-reinforced polymer
- Lens Material
- Power Glass™
- Bezel Material
- fiber-reinforced polymer
- Memory/History
- 32 MB
- Strap material
- silicone
- Charging method
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Display resolution
- 176 x 176 pixels
- QuickFit® watch band compatible
- yes (22 mm)
Sensors
- GPS
- Compass
- GLONASS
- Galileo
- Thermometer
- Accelerometer
- Barometric altimeter
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor
- Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
Product Info
- Main SKU
- 010-02627-13
- Product ID
- 775739
- Product Name
- Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition
- Release Date
- 2/9/2022
- Product Variation
- Black
Clock Features
- Timer
- Stopwatch
- Time/date
- Alarm clock
- GPS Time Sync
- Sunrise/sunset times
- Automatic daylight saving time
Gaming Features
- Gaming Activity
- GameOn™ app compatible
Cycling Features
- Courses
- MTB Grit & Flow
- Race an activity
- Power meter compatible
- Compatible with Varia™ lights
- FTP (Functional Threshold Power)
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)
- Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor)
- Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
- Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters)
- Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
Golfing Features
- Tournament legal
- Digital scorecard
- Garmin AutoShot™
- Round timer/odometer
- Auto CourseView updates
- Yardage to layups/doglegs
- Hazards and course targets
- Pairs with Garmin Golf app
- Green View with manual pin position
- CT10 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)
- Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
- Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
- Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)
- manual
Running Features
- Run workouts
- Running power
- Race predictor
- Foot pod capable
- Running dynamics
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- Lactate threshold
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- Trail run auto climb
- Performance condition
- Run/Walk/Stand detection
- Stride length (real time)
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- Vertical oscillation and ratio
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- Ground contact time and balance
- yes (with compatible accessory)
- GPS-based distance, time and pace
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
What You'll Love
- Display type
- Monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
- Water rating
- 10 ATM
- Garmin Pay™
- Solar Charging
- Training status
- Training readiness
- Pulse Ox blood oxygen
- Sleep score and insights
- Battery life (smartwatch mode)
- Up to 28 daysUnlimited with solar
Activity Profiles
- Gym
- Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing
- Swim
- Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
- Cycling
- Biking, Road Biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel Biking, Bike Commuting, Bike Touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross
- Wellness
- Walking, Pilates, Yoga
- Multisport
- Triathlon
- On the Water
- Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Fishing
- Racket sports
- Tennis
- Snow & winter
- Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Snowshoeing
- Indoor running
- Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running
- Outdoor running
- Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running
- Outdoor recreation
- Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Hunting, Horseback Riding
- Other activity profiles
- Tactical, Obstacle Course
Swimming Features
- Pool swim workouts
- Time and distance alerts
- Auto rest (pool swim only)
- Drill logging (pool swim only)
- Countdown start (pool swim only)
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate
- "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only)
- Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)
- Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)
- Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)
- Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)
- Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim)
Tactical Features
- Kill switch
- Stealth Mode
- Night vision mode
- XERO™ Locations
- Dual grid coordinates
Outdoor Recreation
- TracBack®
- Sight 'N Go
- Back to start
- UltraTrac mode
- Vertical speed
- GPS coordinates
- Reference point
- Area calculation
- Elevation profile
- Projected waypoint
- Total ascent/descent
- Future elevation plot
- Distance to destination
- Expedition GPS Activity
- Sun and moon information
- Point-to-point navigation
- Bread crumb trail in real time
- Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert
Daily Smart Features
- Calendar
- Connectivity
- Bluetooth®, ANT+®
- Find My Phone
- Find My Watch
- VIRB® Remote
- Morning report
- Weather forecasts
- Smart Notifications
- Smart trainer control
- Smartphone compatibility
- iPhone®, Android™
- Controls smartphone music
- Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
- Battery saver (customizable low power watch)
- Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps)
Activity Tracking Features
- TrueUp™
- Move IQ™
- Step counter
- Floors climbed
- Calories burned
- Distance traveled
- Intensity minutes
- Automatic rep counting
- Garmin Connect™ Challenges app
- yes (optional Connect IQ app)
- Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity)
- Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Workout and Training Plans
- HIIT workouts
- Yoga workouts
- Cardio workouts
- Pilates workouts
- Strength workouts
- Garmin Running Coach Experts
- Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans
- Daily Suggested Workout - Cycling (Pace and Heart Rate Based)
- Daily Suggested Workout - Running (Pace and Heart Rate Based)
Health & Wellness Monitoring
- Sleep
- Hydration
- yes (in Garmin Connect™)
- Breathwork
- Fitness age
- All-day stress
- Women's health
- yes (in Garmin Connect™)
- Health snapshot
- Respiration rate
- Resting heart rate
- Abnormal heart rate alerts
- yes (high and low)
- Relaxation breathing timer
- Body Battery™ energy monitor
- Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)
Safety and Tracking Features
- Assistance
- Incident Detection during select activities
Kid Activity Tracking Features
- Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app
- yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app)
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
- % HRR
- % HR max
- HR zones
- HR alerts
- Shortcuts
- HRV status
- Manual lap
- Auto max HR
- Auto scroll
- Finish time
- HR calories
- Voice alerts
- Custom alerts
- Physio TrueUp
- Recovery time
- Training load
- VO2 Max (Run)
- Course guidance
- Training effect
- Virtual Partner
- Race an Activity
- Advanced workouts
- Interval training
- VO2 Max (Trail Run)
- GPS speed and distance
- Improved recovery time
- Configurable lap alerts
- Customizable data pages
- Unified training status
- Touch and/or button lock
- Activity history on watch
- Downloadable training plans
- Training effect (anaerobic)
- Manual multisport activities
- HRM running pace and distance
- Heat and altitude acclimation
- Customizable activity profiles
- Auto Pause® automatic timer halt
- Respiration rate (during exercise)
- Auto Lap® interval tracking feature
- Primary benefit (Training Effect labels)
- Power Modes - customizable in-activity battery settings
- HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices)
- yes (using ANT+)
Alternatives to the Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition
Watches that cover a similar amount of wrist, with the measurements that separate them.
Garmin
Venu 4 - 45mm
- Width
- 45mm
- Thick
- 12mm
- Weight
- 38g
Garmin
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- Width
- 45mm
- Thick
- 14.9mm
- Weight
- 52g
Garmin
Instinct® 3 – 45 mm, Solar
- Width
- 45mm
- Thick
- 14.9mm
- Weight
- 52g
Garmin
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- Width
- 45mm
- Thick
- 14.9mm
- Weight
- 53g
Garmin
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- Width
- 45mm
- Thick
- 14.2mm
- Weight
- 48g
Garmin
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- Width
- 45mm
- Thick
- 12mm
- Weight
- 47g
Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition — Frequently Asked Questions
Will the Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition fit my wrist?
The Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition looks balanced on flat wrist widths of roughly 47–64mm (about 12.6–17.1cm circumference). Drag the slider above to check it against your own measurement.
What size band does the Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition take?
22mm. Any 22mm strap fits, so you are not limited to Garmin's own bands — look for a quick-release fitting if you want to swap without tools.
How long does the Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition battery last?
Between 30 hours and 65 days per charge, depending on the power mode. Garmin rates Battery Saver at 65 days and GPS at 30 hours; the chart above lists all 5 modes.
How does the Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition battery compare with other Garmin watches?
At 28 days in everyday use it ranks #32 of the 257 Garmin watches in our database — the top 12% of the range. The full ranking, including GPS and power-saving figures, is on our Garmin battery life comparison.
Is the Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition thick for a 45mm watch?
At 14.6mm, thicker than 82% of 45mm watches — it will sit noticeably high on the wrist. Thickness, not case width, is what decides whether a watch catches on a shirt cuff.
What other watches are the same size as the Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition?
OnePlus Watch Lite, Oppo Watch S, Google Pixel Watch 4 - 45mm, Tissot T-Race Chronograph PVD / Black / Rubber all sit within half a millimetre of the Garmin Instinct® 2 Solar - Tactical Edition's 45mm case, so they cover the same amount of wrist.
