Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) performs one or more positioning measurements of one or more repetitions of a first positioning reference signal (PRS) resource on a first positioning frequency layer of at least a first PRS instance using a first receive beam, wherein a number of the one or more repetitions of the first PRS resource is based on a receive beam sweeping capability parameter of the UE, the receive beam sweeping capability parameter indicating a number of repetitions of a PRS resource on a positioning frequency layer of a PRS instance for which the UE is expected to use the same receive beam, and reports the one or more positioning measurements to a positioning entity.