Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, such as a user equipment (UE) may monitor a pre-wakeup window during an inactive duration of a multicast discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle that includes multiple active durations and multiple inactive durations. The UE may receive, in the pre-wakeup window, a wakeup signal that indicates a quantity of the active durations in the multicast DRX cycle that the UE is to monitor and the UE may monitor the indicated quantity of active durations for multicast signals for the UE.