Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a wireless device may select random access channel occasions (ROs) based jointly on synchronization signal block (SSB) measurements and cross-link interference (CLI) measurements. The base station may configure the wireless device with a set of SSB occasions during which to measure SSBs and a set of interference measurement occasions on which to measure CLI caused by other wireless devices. The wireless device may perform measurements on the received SSBs to determine channel quality for communications with the base station, and CLI measurements during the interference measurement occasions to determine whether CLI exceeds a threshold. The wireless device may then select a beam and an associated RO (e.g., a full duplex RO or a half duplex RO) on which to transmit the random access message using the selected beam.