Exporting — Suunto

Export a GPX from Suunto (Vertical, Race, 9 Peak), for outdoor outings

Suunto stores your activities on suunto.com and in its mobile app. Here's how to recover the .gpx of an outing to analyse it elsewhere, in a few clicks.

By Web developer & trail runner

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I.Why export from Suunto

Suunto is the direct heir of Finnish outdoor watches: recent models (Vertical, Race, 9 Peak) remain designed for the mountain, ultra-endurance and expedition. The barometer is accurate, elevation tracking reliable even in demanding conditions.

The Suunto app and the suunto.com portal store your outings and give a first look, but to isolate a precise section — the climb of a col, the technical traverse of a ridge, the descent on the way back —, a dedicated analyser stays more surgical. Recovering the .gpx also allows archiving a track before any potential platform change.

II.On desktop, from suunto.com

  1. Open www.suunto.com in a browser and sign in with your credentials.
  2. Go to Activities (or Suunto app web → Diary depending on the version).
  3. Click the activity you want to export to open its detail page.
  4. At the top right, click the options icon (cog or three dots) and choose « Export as GPX » (or Export → GPX depending on the version).

The file downloads in a few seconds. Suunto also offers a full export of all your data from your account settings — useful to archive an entire season at once.

III.On mobile, via the Suunto app

The Suunto app on iOS/Android supports GPX export of a session: open the activity, « More » menu or share button, then « Export → GPX ». Depending on the OS, the file can be shared directly via email, AirDrop or Files, or saved locally before being dropped into an analyser.

IV.And then?

You have your .gpx, ready to be read segment by segment. To sort the climbs of a long trail or hike and find the one that actually broke you, drop the file into GPXchunk. Everything stays in your browser, the Suunto barometer is preserved for fine analysis.

Suunto exports the minimum: track, elevation, HR. To turn those raw points into readable measures — D+, V.A.M., net gradient, pace —, the glossary of the 12 measures of a GPX track walks through each one.

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