Contour · 3 colourways in one purchase
Contour
Topo Map Compass Watch Face
Contour is a survey map on your wrist: fine topographic contour lines, a coordinate grid with survey crosses and a slim compass ring at the very edge with a North marker. A big digital time with seconds sits over slim analog hands, with the weekday, date and week above it, and six map-legend boxes plus a bottom row for the weather hold your data. Seven fields, each one any of 19 metrics.
- 7
- Fields
- 20
- Metrics
- 3
- Colourways
- 63
- Watches
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about €5.50 · one-time purchase · no subscription · v1.4.2
A topo map with a compass, seven fields on top.
Contour is a survey map on your wrist: fine topographic contour lines, a coordinate grid with survey crosses and a slim compass ring at the very edge with a North marker. A big digital time with seconds sits over slim analog hands, with the weekday, date and week above it, and six map-legend boxes plus a bottom row for the weather hold your data. Seven fields, each one any of 19 metrics. Three maps in the same purchase: Contour (deep navy), Survey (olive and khaki with a red North) and Terrain (a calm dark map with a bold orange accent). Analog, digital or both. Train with my Gym Notes app? Contour can show today's workout from your plan under the time ("CHEST + BACK", "LEGS", "REST"). Off by default.
- 017 data fields, 19 metrics each
- 023 colourways in one face
- 03Weekday, date, ISO week and weather
- 04Always-on display like the face
- 05Digital time over slim analog hands
- 06Units follow your watch settings (km/mi, °C/°F, 12/24 h)
Live preview
Switch colourways, themes, accents and settings, or pick your watch to see the face on its own screen.
Contour · shown on a 454 × 454 AMOLED screen
Colourway 3
Settings 9
Always-on 2
Every state above is a screenshot of the face running in Garmin's simulator with that setting.
What you can change
Change every metric
Each of the seven fields can show any of 19 metrics - battery, Body Battery, recovery time, heart rate, steps, weekly running distance, weather, calories, floors climbed, active minutes, distance today, stress, notifications, altitude, sunrise/sunset, respiration, pulse ox, battery days left, air pressure.
Remove any metric
Set a field to "Empty" and it is gone. Remove them all for a clean face with only the time over the map.
Analog or digital (setting "Time display")
"Analog + digital", "Analog only" or "Digital only".
All 3 colourways included in one purchase
Contour, Survey, Terrain - switch any time (setting "Colourway").
Hands on top or under the data, your choice (setting "Hands"): "Hands on top" sweeps the hands over every number, like a mechanical watch; "Data on top" keeps every number readable.
12 or 24-hour time as your watch is set; a leading zero as the watch shows it, always (09:41) or never (9:41) (setting "Leading zero"); an AM/PM marker (setting "AM/PM marker").
The date your way (setting "Date line")
Shown, or off for a cleaner face.
Always-on display like the face (its ring, hands and colours) or minimal, dim to bright; the full face on solar/MIP watches.
Gym Notes workout (off by default)
Today's workout from the Gym Notes app, small under the time.
Change everything on the watch or in the Connect IQ app; every change shows at once.
20 metrics for every field.
Each of the 7 fields shows any of them, or nothing at all. Swap them any time on the watch or in the app.
Health6
- Body Battery
- Recovery time
- Heart rate
- Stress
- Respiration
- Pulse Ox
Activity6
- Steps
- Running this week
- Calories
- Floors climbed
- Active minutes
- Distance today
Weather & sky4
- Weather
- Altitude
- Sunrise / sunset
- Air pressure
Watch4
- Battery
- Notifications
- Battery days left
- Next event
Settings
Straight from the face's own settings. Change them on the watch (hold UP/MENU on the face, then Watch face › Customize) or in the Connect IQ app (My Device › Watch Faces › Contour › Settings).
Time & date
- Time display
- Analog + digital · Analog only · Digital only
- Hands
- Data on top · Hands on top
- Leading zero
- As the watch · Always · Never
- AM/PM marker
- On · Off
- Date line
- Day, date and week · Off · Day and date · Day, date and month
Look
- Gym Notes workout
- On · Off
Always-on
- Sleep mode
- Minimal: time + heart rate · Full dial
- Always-on display
- Like the face · Minimal
- Always-on brightness
- Dim · Normal · Bright
63 Garmin watches.
Forerunner 16
- Forerunner 970AMOLED · 454×454
- Forerunner 965AMOLED · 454×454
- Forerunner 570 47mmAMOLED · 454×454
- Forerunner 265AMOLED · 416×416
- Forerunner 570 42mmAMOLED · 390×390
- Forerunner 170AMOLED · 390×390
- Forerunner 170 MusicAMOLED · 390×390
- Forerunner 165AMOLED · 390×390
- Forerunner 165 MusicAMOLED · 390×390
- Forerunner 70AMOLED · 390×390
- Forerunner 265sAMOLED · 360×360
- Forerunner 955 / SolarMIP · 260×260
- Forerunner 255MIP · 260×260
- Forerunner 255 MusicMIP · 260×260
- Forerunner 255sMIP · 218×218
- Forerunner 255s MusicMIP · 218×218
fēnix 21
- fēnix 8 47mm / 51mm / tactix 8 47mm / 51mm / quatix 8 47mm / 51mmAMOLED · 454×454
- fēnix 8 Pro 47mm / 51mm / MicroLED / quatix 8 Pro 47mm / 51mmAMOLED · 454×454
- fēnix 9 47mm / 51mmAMOLED · 454×454
- fēnix 9 Pro 47mmAMOLED · 454×454
- fēnix 9 Pro 51mmAMOLED · 466×466
- fēnix 8 43mmAMOLED · 416×416
- fēnix 9 43mmAMOLED · 416×416
- fēnix 9 Pro 43mmAMOLED · 416×416
- fēnix 7 / quatix 7MIP · 260×260
- fēnix 7 ProMIP · 260×260
- fēnix 7 Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi)MIP · 260×260
- fēnix 7X / tactix 7 / quatix 7X Solar / Enduro 2MIP · 280×280
- fēnix 7X ProMIP · 280×280
- fēnix 7X Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi)MIP · 280×280
- fēnix 7SMIP · 240×240
- fēnix 7S ProMIP · 240×240
- fēnix 8 Solar 47mmMIP · 260×260
- fēnix 8 Solar 51mm / tactix 8 Solar 51mmMIP · 280×280
- fēnix 9 Pro Solar 47mmMIP · 260×260
- fēnix 9 Pro Solar 51mmMIP · 280×280
- fēnix EAMOLED · 416×416
vívoactive 2
- vívoactive 6AMOLED · 390×390
- vívoactive 5AMOLED · 390×390
Venu 7
- Venu 3SAMOLED · 390×390
- Venu 4 41mmAMOLED · 390×390
- Venu 2AMOLED · 416×416
- Venu 2 PlusAMOLED · 416×416
- Venu 3AMOLED · 454×454
- Venu 4 45mm / D2 Air X15AMOLED · 454×454
- Venu 2SAMOLED · 360×360
epix 4
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 42mmAMOLED · 390×390
- epix (Gen 2) / quatix 7 SapphireAMOLED · 416×416
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 47mm / quatix 7 ProAMOLED · 416×416
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 51mm / D2 Mach 1 Pro / tactix 7 – AMOLED EditionAMOLED · 454×454
MARQ 2
- MARQ (Gen 2) Athlete / Adventurer / Captain / Golfer / Carbon Edition / Commander - Carbon EditionAMOLED · 390×390
- MARQ (Gen 2) AviatorAMOLED · 390×390
Approach 5
- Approach S70 42mmAMOLED · 390×390
- Approach S50AMOLED · 390×390
- Approach S72 43mmAMOLED · 416×416
- Approach S70 47mmAMOLED · 454×454
- Approach S72 47mmAMOLED · 454×454
Descent 2
- Descent Mk3 43mm / Mk3i 43mmAMOLED · 390×390
- Descent Mk3i 51mmAMOLED · 454×454
Instinct 2
- Instinct 3 AMOLED 45mmAMOLED · 390×390
- Instinct 3 AMOLED 50mmAMOLED · 416×416
Version 1.4.2
First released 4 Oct 2026. Updates are free and install by themselves.
- 1.4.11 Nov 2026
- Steps now count towards your own daily step goal from Garmin Connect (it was fixed at 10,000), so 7,500 steps of a 7,500 goal is 100%. Thanks for spotting it!
- 1.4.029 Oct 2026
- New always-on display that looks like the face: its ring, its hands and its own colours - and no digital time when you have switched it off. Brightness: dim, normal or bright (setting "Always-on brightness"); the old minimal screen is still there (setting "Always-on display").
- The compass letters on the outer ring (E, S, W) are bigger - easier to read.
- New map: Terrain, a calm dark map with an orange accent, takes the place of Isoline (setting "Colourway").
- 1.3.029 Oct 2026
- New setting "Date line": show the date, or turn it off - change it on the watch or in the Connect IQ app.
- 1.2.128 Oct 2026
- The date now shows correctly in every watch language: letters such as Č, Ř, Ł or Ş appeared as an empty box; they now show as their plain letter, and other alphabets use the English abbreviation.
- 1.2.028 Oct 2026
- Much bigger and easier to read: the wide compass bezel is now a slim ring at the very edge, so the map fills the whole screen and the time, date and data boxes are about 35-50 % larger.
- Longer hands that reach out over the whole map.
- 1.1.025 Oct 2026
- New setting "Hands": the hands on top of the data, or the data on top of the hands - your choice (thanks for the feedback!).
- New setting "Leading zero": the hour as the watch shows it, always with a zero (09:41) or never (9:41).
- New setting "AM/PM marker": shows AM or PM next to a 12-hour time.
- Bigger numbers and labels on the smaller watches (Forerunner 165, 170, 70 and 265S, vívoactive 5 and 6, Venu 3S and more): easier to read at a glance.
Why do I see "--" for body Battery, recovery time and weekly running distance?
Body Battery, recovery time and weekly running distance are shown only when the watch provides them; otherwise "--".
Weather is the current value synced from the phone?
Weather is the current value synced from the phone; the heart-rate range covers the last few hours.
The steps progress follows your own daily step goal from Garmin Connect?
The steps progress follows your own daily step goal from Garmin Connect.
On solar/MIP watches (64 colours) the map shows only its index contours?
On solar/MIP watches (64 colours) the map shows only its index contours.
How do I change a field or a colour?
On the watch: hold the middle-left (UP/MENU) button on the watch face, choose Watch face, then Customize. In the phone: open the Connect IQ app, go to My Device, Watch Faces, Contour, then Settings. Every change shows at once.
Is it a subscription?
No. You buy it once in the Connect IQ store and keep every future update.
Does it drain the battery?
The face is built to be as frugal as a Garmin face: it redraws once a minute and the always-on screen is dimmed and minimal on AMOLED watches.
