SkyFace

Today's sky, all twenty-four hours of it.

A band round the dial painted with the day's sky: night, dawn, daylight, dusk. The sun, the moon and the planets ride along it while they are above your horizon.

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What it does

The colours of the sky: The band turns from night to twilight to day at the minutes the sun crosses each line, wherever you are.
Sun, moon and planets: Arcs mark when the moon and each planet are up, and where the sun is now.
The weather ahead: Clouds grey the band over the next hours; rain, snow, storms and fog are marked where they come.
Sunrise, sunset, day length: And how much longer or shorter today is than yesterday.
A map of the sky: Stars, constellations and the Milky Way as they stand above you.

By day, and at night

The same face at 12:30 and at 22:30 on one November day in Paris, as our server draws it from the face’s own code.

SkyFace, by day — **By day**The band is today’s sky hour by hour, coloured for where you are: night, dawn, daylight, dusk. The hand is now, the sun rides at its height, and the moon and the planets run on their arcs while they are up. In the middle: sunrise, the day’s length, sunset, and your fields.

SkyFace, at night — **At night**Once it is properly dark, the middle opens onto the sky above you: the stars, the constellations and the Milky Way, north up, with the planets that are up and the moon in its phase. The time and the date move onto the band, beside the hand.

On your watch

SkyFace, fēnix 8 · 47 mm · AMOLED — fēnix 8 · 47 mm · AMOLED

SkyFace, fēnix 8 · 43 mm · AMOLED — fēnix 8 · 43 mm · AMOLED

SkyFace, fēnix 7 · MIP screen — fēnix 7 · MIP screen

SkyFace, Always on · 47 mm — Always on · 47 mm

Pictures from the face itself, on the screens it is built for: round AMOLED and MIP screens from 218 to 454 pixels.

What it can show

Time and date

Local timeDate

Sun and moon

Sunrise / sunset (both, or the next one)Day length (and its change since yesterday)Moon phase

Weather (Garmin's)

Conditions + temperatureHigh / lowCloud coverWind (speed, direction)Hourly forecast (next 24 h)

Activity

Steps (+ goal, 7 days)

Health

Heart rate (+ 4 h trace)Body BatteryPulse Ox

Sensors and place

Altitude

Space

ISS on the mapPlanets, stars, Milky WayIridium

Watch and phone

Battery %Battery days left

On different watches

The same face, drawn for each screen: what changes between AMOLED and MIP screens, wrist down, and on older or smaller watches.

	AMOLED screens	MIP screens
The sky by day	The band in smooth gradients (a fine grain keeps them from banding), a soft glow round the noon sun, the sky greying where clouds are forecast.	The band in the 64 colours, blended with a fine dither; the weather symbols, without the cloud greying.
The sky at night	Stars in the band and in the centre, and on the sky map the Milky Way and its star dust.	The night in dark blue; the sky map with its brighter stars, without the Milky Way; no stars in the band or the centre.
Wrist down	Everything stays in place, dimmed: the band as thin arcs, the text in grey; no stars, Milky Way or weather symbols.	The full colour face, updated once a minute.

Which watches: Watches with Connect IQ 5.0 or later (59 models). The fine grain on the band needs a screen that blends: not on the vívoactive 5, Forerunner 165 and 70, Approach S50, Descent G2 or Instinct 3 AMOLED.
Small screens: The centre makes room as the screen gets smaller: first the change in day length, then the last fields; the smallest screens keep one field.
Heart rate and Pulse Ox: Left blank while your wrist is down, their place kept.
Where you are: SkyFace takes your position from Garmin weather: until the weather has reached the watch, it shows "WAITING FOR LOCATION".

Set it up

Install itFrom the Connect IQ app on your phone, once it is in the store.
Find your codeIn Garmin Connect, open the face’s settings: the code is under “Your code”.
Enter it hereOn the settings page: no account and no password. Set your time zones, your home city, your stocks.

The other faces

WorldFaceThe whole world, live, on your wrist.

WorldFace 3DThe globe, turning with the sun.