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Employee Benefit Plans (Details Narrative) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 30, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 26, 2015
Expenses related to other defined contribution plans	$ 43,826	$ 40,844	$ 37,489
Defined Contribution Retirement Plan [Member] | Garmin (Europe) Ltd [Member]
Maximum annually percentage of employees contribution to retirement plan	7.50%
Defined Contribution Retirement Plan [Member] | Garmin International, Inc & Other U.S. - based Subsidiaries Sponsor [Member]
Maximum annually percentage of employees contribution to retirement plan	50.00%

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Amount of cost for defined contribution plan.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 715
-SubTopic 70
-Section 50
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