Embodiments of this application provide a paging method and a communication apparatus, relate to the communications field, and are particularly applicable to NTN communication. The method includes: receiving a first message from a first network device, where the first message includes discontinuous reception DRX cycle information, the DRX cycle information is determined based on signal coverage cycle information of a second network device, the DRX cycle information is used to configure a DRX cycle TUE used by the terminal device to receive the paging message, and the signal coverage cycle information indicates a signal coverage cycle of the second network device; and receiving a paging message from the second network device based on the DRX cycle information.