Garmin · 2023
Venu 3SSize, Dimensions & Wrist Fit
The Garmin Venu 3S sits best on flat wrist widths of about 43–59mm (≈ 11.5–15.8cm wrist circumference). Adjust the slider below to check your wrist.
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The Venu® 3S in short
The figures that decide whether this watch suits you, pulled out of the full specification sheet further down.
- Between 21 hours and 480 hours per charge depending on the power mode — battery saver at best, gps at worst.
- Water rated to 50 m.
- 27g on the wrist. Lighter than 97% of the 41mm watches we have weights for.
- 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter OLED/AMOLED display, always-on capable.
- Takes 18mm bands, so third-party straps fit without an adapter.
Does the Venu 3S fit your wrist?
Drag the slider to your wrist width and see the Venu 3S overlaid at true scale. Lug-to-lug — not case diameter — decides whether a watch overhangs your wrist.
Watch Fit Tool
For sports watches, lug-to-lug (L2L) is what matters most — it decides whether a watch overhangs your wrist. Bulky is fine; overhang is not.
Measure at the point where you wear your watch — typically just below the wrist bone.
Flat width — lay your arm on a table, palm facing up, and measure straight across the top of your wrist with a ruler. Bone to bone; do not follow the curve down the sides.
Around — wrap a tape measure snugly round the wrist. No tape? Wrap a strip of paper, mark the overlap and hold the strip against a ruler.
Width ≠ circumference. They are different numbers — around 170mm is about 64mm across — so set the toggle to whichever one you actually measured before you type it in.
Garmin Venu® 3S
Case 41.0mm · Lug-to-lug 41.0mm · Thickness 12.0mm · 27g
Balanced Fit
41mm on a 55mm wrist
Comfortably inside the edges of your wrist, and it seats and sits low enough to wear without thinking about it.
On a 55mm wrist the sweet spot is 47–53mm lug to lug. This one is 41mm, so you could go bigger.
Measure where you wear it, just below the wrist bone. Either of these works — the tool converts between them.
- 1. Flat width — arm flat on a table, palm up. Measure straight across the top of the wrist, bone to bone, ignoring the curve down the sides.
- 2. Around — a tape, or a strip of paper marked and held against a ruler, snug the whole way round.
Leather: Attaches at the lugs, so the case back rests on your skin. Thins and softens with wear. Typical figures, not this model’s own.
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- Across the wrist7.0mm spare each side
Comfortable, with visible skin either side.
- Off the wrist12.0mm off the skin
Normal sports-watch height for a wrist this size. (12.0mm case, back against the skin)
- How it seats~3.7mm under the rim
Seats well, with the case back following most of the wrist.
- Weight on the wrist27g
Light enough to forget you have it on. (0.5g per mm of wrist)
Happy with the fit? Check current availability for the Venu 3S.
Check offer2D Dimension Schematics
The Venu® 3S drawn to scale — from above, and in profile against the wrist.
- Garmin Venu® 3S41mm · 12mm thick
3D preview
Garmin Venu® 3S 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 Venu® 3S lasts, by power mode
Runtime changes by a factor of 23 depending on what you leave switched on. Bars are scaled against the longest mode.
- Battery Saver480 hours
- Smartwatch10 days
- GPS21 hours
How the Venu® 3S ranks on battery
Against the 296 Garmin watches in our database, ranked on each figure Garmin publishes.
- Everyday use20 days#132 of 285
- GPS tracking21 hours#171 of 267
What size band does the Venu® 3S take?
Lug width
18mm
Any 18mm 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 18mm and quick-release before buying.
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Venu® 3S specifications
The figures that decide a purchase, followed by every line Garmin publishes.
- Battery life
- 10 days
- Display
- 1.2 inches
- Resolution
- 390 x 390 px
- Water rating
- 5 ATM
- Case material
- fiber-reinforced polymer
- Bezel
- stainless steel
- Glass
- Gorilla Glass 3
- Strap
- 18 mm
- Storage
- 8 GB
- Charging
- 1 hours
Full specification sheet
315 published lines across 27 groups, unedited
Overview
- Family
- Garmin
Design
- width
- 41
- height
- 41
- volume
- 20.17 cm³
- weight
- 40 g
- thickness
- 12
- ATM rating
- 5 ATM
- resolution
- 390 x 390 px
- screen size
- 1.2 inches
- Display type
- OLED/AMOLED
- Has a display
- pixel density
- 459 ppi
- width of band
- 18 mm
- water resistance
- Waterproof
- Always-On Display
- has a touch screen
- is designed for kids
- Gorilla Glass version
- Gorilla Glass 3
- waterproof depth rating
- 50 m
- Watch band is replaceable
- Has sapphire glass display
- maximum operating temperature
- 50 °C
- has branded damage-resistant glass
- lowest potential operating temperature
- -20 °C
Battery
- charge time
- 1 hours
- battery life
- 10 days
- has wireless charging
- has a removable battery
- battery life with GPS on
- 21 hours
- Has a solar power battery
- has a rechargeable battery
- battery life in power save mode
- 480 hours
General
- Battery life
- Smartwatch mode: Up to 10 days (5 days display always-on) 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: Up to 8 hours See Details
- Battery type
- Lithium ion
- Display Size
- 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter
- Case material
- fiber-reinforced polymer
- Color display
- Lens Material
- Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
- Bezel Material
- stainless steel
- Memory/History
- 8 GB
- Strap material
- silicone
- Charging method
- Garmin proprietary plug charger
- Large font option
- Display resolution
- 390 x 390 pixels
- Quick Release bands
- yes (18 mm, Industry standard)
- Built-in speaker/microphone
Sensors
- GPS
- Compass
- GLONASS
- Galileo
- has GPS
- Gyroscope
- Thermometer
- yes (tempe™ sensor required)
- Accelerometer
- has a compass
- Has a barometer
- has a gyroscope
- Ambient light sensor
- Barometric altimeter
- Has a cadence sensor
- has an accelerometer
- Monitors perspiration
- Has a heart rate monitor
- Has a temperature sensor
- Monitors blood oxygenation levels
- Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor
- Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
Features
- release date
- 2023-08-30
- Has a stopwatch
- Has smart alarm
- warranty period
- 1 years
- Has call control
- Has silent alarm
- has HRV tracking
- internal storage
- 8GB
- measures VO2 max
- Has notifications
- Has ECG technology
- Locates your phone
- has a front camera
- has fall detection
- has voice commands
- Acquires GPS faster
- Has vibrating alerts
- shows readiness level
- Can be used to answer calls
- measures resting heart rate
- has irregular heart rate warnings
- has fast/slow heart rate notifications
- Has a built-in camera remote control function
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
Connectivity
- has NFC
- supports ANT+
- supports Wi-Fi
- supports Galileo
- has a cellular module
- Is compatible with iOS
- Is compatible with Android
Product Info
- Main SKU
- 010-02785-04
- Product ID
- 873214
- Product Name
- Venu® 3S
- Release Date
- 8/31/2023
- Product Variation
- Soft Gold Stainless Steel Bezel with Ivory Case and Silicone Band
Miscellaneous
- has aptX
- Has auto pause
- Available on PC
- Is compatible with Windows
- Is compatible with Mac OS X
- has an external memory slot
- Compatible with smart scales
- has a battery level indicator
- has a socket for a 3.5 mm audio jack
- Compatible with external heart rate monitors
App & Software
- Ad-free
- Free app
- Tracks BMI
- Has coaching
- Includes maps
- Supports routes
- Has achievements
- Has goal setting
- Has live tracking
- Has exercise diary
- Predicts ovulation
- Can be personalised
- Has weight tracking
- Predicts start date
- Tracks water intake
- Has inactivity alerts
- Has period notifications
- Has temperature tracking
- Doesn’t require account
- Provides activity reports
- Displays fertile window notifications
- Counts how many calories you've burned
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
- Power meter compatible
- Compatible with Varia™ lights
- Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)
- yes (using ANT+ or BLE)
- 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
- PinPointer
- Tournament legal
- Digital scorecard
- Garmin AutoShot™
- Round timer/odometer
- 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)
- automatic
Running Features
- Run workouts
- Running power
- Foot pod capable
- Running dynamics
- Run/Walk/Stand detection
- Vertical oscillation and ratio
- GPS-based distance, time and pace
- Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
What You'll Love
- Touchscreen
- Display type
- AMOLED (optional always-on mode)
- Water rating
- Swim, 5 ATM
- Garmin Pay™
- Music storage
- Garmin ECG App
- Wheelchair mode
- Pulse Ox blood oxygen
- yes (spot-check, and optionally all-day and in sleep)
- Sleep score and insights
- Battery life (smartwatch mode)
- Up to 10 days
- Make calls and send texts via voice
Activity Profiles
- Gym
- Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Jump Roping
- Swim
- Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
- Cycling
- Biking, Indoor Biking, eBiking, Handcycling, Indoor Handcycling
- Wellness
- Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking
- In the ring
- Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts
- Team sports
- Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
- On the Water
- Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing
- Racket sports
- Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
- Snow & winter
- Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Snowshoeing
- Indoor running
- Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running
- Outdoor running
- Running
- Outdoor recreation
- Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Disc Golf
Activity tracking
- Measures pace
- Tracks distance
- Tracks elevation
- Designed for golf
- Tracks your sleep
- Tracks steps taken
- Designed for diving
- Has a route tracker
- Has exercise tagging
- Has multi-sport mode
- Tracks calorie intake
- Provides sleep reports
- Detects activities automatically
- Has a stroke counter for swimming
Swimming Features
- Time and distance alerts
- Auto rest (pool swim only)
- Underwater wrist-based heart rate
- 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)
Outdoor Recreation
- Back to start
- Fish forecast
- yes (via Connect IQ™)
- Area calculation
- yes (via Connect IQ™)
- Total ascent/descent
- Sun and moon information
- yes (via Connect IQ™)
Daily Smart Features
- Calendar
- Passcode
- Connectivity
- Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
- Find My Phone
- Find My Watch
- Morning report
- Red shift mode
- Weather forecasts
- Smart Notifications
- Smart trainer control
- Smartphone compatibility
- iPhone®, Android™
- Controls smartphone music
- On-device Connect IQ™ Store
- Plays and controls watch music
- Find My Phone during GPS activity
- Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
- Compatible with Garmin Messenger app
- Battery saver (customizable low power watch)
- Bluetooth phone calling and voice assistant support
- Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile
- View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only)
- Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only)
- Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps)
Activity Tracking Features
- TrueUp™
- Move IQ™
- Push tracker
- Step counter
- Floors climbed
- Calories burned
- Distance traveled
- Intensity minutes
- Weight shift alert
- Automatic rep counting
- Garmin Connect™ Challenges 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
- On-screen workout animations
- On-screen workout muscle maps
- Workouts for wheelchair users
Health & Wellness Monitoring
- Sleep
- yes (advanced)
- Hydration
- Breathwork
- Meditation
- Fitness age
- Sleep coach
- Nap detection
- All-day stress
- Women's health
- Health snapshot
- Jet lag adviser
- Respiration rate
- Skin temperature
- Resting heart rate
- Breathing variations
- Relaxation reminders
- 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
- Incident detection alert on phone for wearables
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
- % HR max
- HR zones
- HR alerts
- HRV status
- Manual lap
- Auto scroll
- HR calories
- Voice alerts
- Physio TrueUp
- Recovery time
- VO2 Max (Run)
- Workout benefit
- Advanced workouts
- Interval training
- GPS speed and distance
- Improved recovery time
- yes (limited)
- Customizable data pages
- Touch and/or button lock
- Activity history on watch
- Downloadable training plans
- HRM running pace and distance
- Customizable activity profiles
- Auto Pause® automatic timer halt
- Respiration rate (during exercise)
- yoga, breathwork and meditation only
- Auto Lap® interval tracking feature
- HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices)
- yes (using ANT+ or BLE)
- Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection)
Compare the Venu® 3S head to head
How each one differs in the three measurements you can feel on the wrist. Figures are relative to the Venu® 3S.
Garmin
Venu 4 41mm
- Width
- same mm
- Thick
- same mm
- Weight
- +6g
Huawei
Watch GT 6 - 41mm
- Width
- +0.3mm
- Thick
- -2mm
- Weight
- +10.5g
Pixel Watch 4 - 41mm
- Width
- same mm
- Thick
- +0.3mm
- Weight
- +4g
Samsung
Galaxy Watch8 - LTE · 40mm
- Width
- -0.6mm
- Thick
- -3.4mm
- Weight
- +3g
Samsung
Galaxy Watch8 - Wi-Fi · 40mm
- Width
- -0.6mm
- Thick
- -3.4mm
- Weight
- +3g
Garmin
Venu X1
- Width
- same mm
- Thick
- -4.1mm
- Weight
- +7g
Amazfit
Bip 6
- Width
- -0.8mm
- Thick
- -1.6mm
- Weight
- +0.9g
Huawei
Watch GT 5 41mm
- Width
- +0.3mm
- Thick
- -2.5mm
- Weight
- +8g
Amazfit
Active
- Width
- +1.4mm
- Thick
- -1.2mm
- Weight
- same g
Pixel Watch 3 41mm
- Width
- same mm
- Thick
- +0.3mm
- Weight
- +4g
Garmin
Forerunner® 265S
- Width
- +0.7mm
- Thick
- +0.9mm
- Weight
- +12g
Garmin
vívomove Trend
- Width
- -0.6mm
- Thick
- -0.1mm
- Weight
- +1.3g
Alternatives to the Venu® 3S
Watches that cover a similar amount of wrist, with the measurements that separate them.
Garmin
Venu 4 41mm
- Width
- 41mm
- Thick
- 12mm
- Weight
- 33g
Garmin
Venu X1
- Width
- 41mm
- Thick
- 7.9mm
- Weight
- 34g
Garmin
Forerunner® 255S
- Width
- 41mm
- Thick
- 12.4mm
- Weight
- 39g
Garmin
Venu® Sq 2
- Width
- 40.6mm
- Thick
- 11.1mm
- Weight
- 38g
Garmin
Venu® Sq
- Width
- 40.6mm
- Thick
- 11.5mm
- Weight
- 37.6g
Garmin
Venu Sq Music Edition
- Width
- 40.6mm
- Thick
- 11.5mm
- Weight
- 37.6g
Venu® 3S — Frequently Asked Questions
Will the Garmin Venu 3S fit my wrist?
The Garmin Venu 3S looks balanced on flat wrist widths of roughly 43–59mm (about 11.5–15.8cm circumference). Drag the slider above to check it against your own measurement.
What size band does the Garmin Venu 3S take?
18mm. Any 18mm 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 Venu 3S battery last?
Between 21 hours and 480 hours per charge, depending on the power mode. Garmin rates Battery Saver at 480 hours and GPS at 21 hours; the chart above lists all 3 modes.
How does the Garmin Venu 3S battery compare with other Garmin watches?
At 20 days in everyday use it ranks #132 of the 285 Garmin watches in our database — the top 46% of the range. The full ranking, including GPS and power-saving figures, is on our Garmin battery life comparison.
Is the Garmin Venu 3S thick for a 41mm watch?
At 12mm, middle of the pack for thickness at this width. 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 Venu 3S?
TAG Heuer Carrera Chronograph Glass Box 41 Stainless Steel / Black, Zenith Defy Skyline Tourbillon Skeleton Rose Gold / Blue, Huawei Watch GT 6 - 41mm, Google Pixel Watch 4 - 41mm all sit within half a millimetre of the Garmin Venu 3S's 41mm case, so they cover the same amount of wrist.
