Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) aggregation across monitoring occasions. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining a policy for monitoring one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs), wherein the policy allows for mapping control channel elements (CCEs) of a single PDCCH candidate across multiple PDCCH monitoring occasions; and monitoring for signals from a network entity via the one or more PDCCHs according to the determined policy.