The present invention discloses a multi-frame synchronization method, the method comprises: for each received sub-frame, a receiver determining a probability that the received sub-frame is each of sub-frames in a multi-frame, a sub-frame with maximum probability being a state of the currently received sub-frame after N sub-frames are received. The present invention further discloses a receiving apparatus for multi-frame synchronization comprising a calculation module; wherein the calculation module is configured to calculate a probability that a received sub-frame is each of sub-frames in a multi-frame, and determine a state of the currently received sub-frame based on a sub-frame with maximum probability after N sub-frames are received. The present invention effectively achieves a position for multi-frame synchronization and low calculation complexity.