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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Nicky Rampley-Clarke

Best running watches 2026: From Huawei and Apple to Garmin, we've found the top picks for every route

Nowadays, there’s an app, watch or device to track all activities, from sleeping to exercising, so it can be hard to see the wood for the trees.

Running watches have come on leaps and bounds since their earlier predecessors, which focused on step-counts and distance measurements, to offer everything from finding new routes and marking your pace to tracking other sports and monitoring daily activity.

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