Sunrise · 6 colourways in one purchase
Summit
Living Mountain Day & Night Watch Face
Summit is one of my two favourites in the collection: a mountain panorama that follows the real sun where you are - a golden sunrise, a clear morning, a bright midday, a warm afternoon, a red sunset and a starry night with today's moon. Or the northern lights over the lake, green or purple: at night only, or all day.
- 7
- Fields
- 20
- Metrics
- 6
- Colourways
- 42
- Watches
the store on your phone
about €5 · one-time purchase · no subscription · v1.4.1
A living mountain sky with seven fields.
Summit is one of my two favourites in the collection: a mountain panorama that follows the real sun where you are - a golden sunrise, a clear morning, a bright midday, a warm afternoon, a red sunset and a starry night with today's moon. Or the northern lights over the lake, green or purple: at night only, or all day. The sun moves along its arc, and the moon takes over at night. The data sits on the landscape without hiding it: a big raised time with seconds, the weekday, date and week, two ring gauges over the peaks, a row for heart rate, battery and recovery, and your weekly running distance and the weather at the bottom - seven fields, each one any of 19 metrics. With my Gym Notes app, Summit can also show today's workout ("LEGS", "REST") small between the rings - off by default (setting "Gym Notes workout").
- 017 data fields, 19 metrics each
- 026 skies with the sun + the northern lights
- 03Weekday, date, ISO week and weather
- 04Always-on display like the face
- 05Big digital time with seconds, 12/24 h
- 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.
Sunrise · shown on a 454 × 454 AMOLED screen
Colourway 8
Settings 5
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 mountains.
The sky your way (setting "Sky")
Follow the sun (Sunrise, Morning, Midday, Afternoon, Sunset, Night with today's moon), the sun with the northern lights at night, or the green or purple northern lights all the time.
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.
Large numbers (setting "Number size")
Every field as its icon and a large value, no label - easy to read at a glance.
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 between the rings.
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 › Summit › Settings).
Time & date
- 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
- Number size
- Normal · Large
Always-on
- Sleep mode
- Minimal: time + heart rate · Full dial
- Always-on display
- Like the face · Minimal
- Always-on brightness
- Dim · Normal · Bright
42 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 20
- 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
vívoactive 2
- vívoactive 6AMOLED · 390×390
- vívoactive 5AMOLED · 390×390
Venu 4
- Venu 3SAMOLED · 390×390
- Venu 4 41mmAMOLED · 390×390
- Venu 3AMOLED · 454×454
- Venu 4 45mm / D2 Air X15AMOLED · 454×454
Version 1.4.1
First released 4 Oct 2026. Updates are free and install by themselves.
- 1.4.25 Nov 2026
- The living sky follows your real sunrise and sunset even when the weather has no location (the watch's own sunrise and sunset first), and the sunrise / sunset field shows too.
- 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!
- 1.4.030 Oct 2026
- New: the northern lights. Summit now has the skies of Nordic Light built in - setting "Sky": follow the sun, the sun with the northern lights at night, or the green or purple northern lights all the time.
- 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 setting "Gauge style" is now called "Number size" (Normal / Large) - easier to find.
- 1.2.029 Oct 2026
- New setting "Gauge style": "Big numbers" shows just the icon and a large value in every field - much easier to read.
- New setting "Date line": show the date, or turn it off - change it on the watch or in the Connect IQ app.
- 1.1.128 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.
- 1.1.025 Oct 2026
- 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 painted scene is dithered into the palette?
On solar/MIP watches (64 colours) the painted scene is dithered into the palette; the sun or the aurora stays the motif.
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, Summit, 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.
