Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam switching gaps. A base station (BS) can send an allocation to a user equipment (UE) including an at least one symbol beam switching gap based, at least in part, on a subcarrier spacing (SCS) of the UE. The UE and BS can then communicate using the allocation. The allocation may also be based on reported capability of the UE. The allocation may also be based on capability of the BS. The beam switching gap can be allocated explicitly or implicitly.