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How to change distance units from miles to km in garmin connect mobile

Hello Garmin and friends,

Can anyone help me to change from miles to km.
In my garmin 5 watch settings is in km but when i sync my activities to my mobile it shows me in miles....

Thank you

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Kokolandiah over 6 years ago +1

In GC App, click on your watch icon with green dot (if sync is ok), then click on "Device Parameters" then click on the first line called "System" and there you can change distance format.…
JSRUNNER_ over 6 years ago +1 verified

Kokolandiah That setting is for the device - go to settings from main drop down menu
Select user settings
Then select Unit of Measure - Metric
mcalista over 6 years ago +1

I had this problem with the last update to the watch firmware, where distance and speed were in miles, despite the general settings being metric.

Annoyingm but easily fixed on the watch:
Settings> System…

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0 fabrice9164 over 6 years ago

In GC App, click on your watch icon with green dot (if sync is ok), then click on "Device Parameters" then click on the first line called "System" and there you can change distance format.

0 Kokolandiah over 6 years ago

In GC App, click on your watch icon with green dot (if sync is ok), then click on "Device Parameters" then click on the first line called "System" and there you can change distance format.

hi fabrice.
Thanks for replying my post.
i already changed the settings
device settings > system > kilometers
but still no changes :(

+1 JSRUNNER_ over 6 years ago

Kokolandiah That setting is for the device - go to settings from main drop down menu
Select user settings
Then select Unit of Measure - Metric

0 mcalista over 6 years ago

I had this problem with the last update to the watch firmware, where distance and speed were in miles, despite the general settings being metric.

Annoyingm but easily fixed on the watch:
Settings> System> Units> Distance = km

0 2196277 over 1 year ago in reply to JSRUNNER_

Thank you, the above recommendation worked for me