Suljinaikoja

Suljinaikoja is a Finnish noun meaning "closing times" or "times when an entity is closed." It is formed from sulje, meaning "to close," and aika, meaning "time." The term refers to periods during which a facility or service is not accessible.

In everyday Finnish, the standard term for a place’s operating hours is aukioloajat, so suljinaikoja is less common and tends to appear in more formal schedules, regulatory texts, or archival materials describing planned or potential openings and closures.

The concept can cover daily, seasonal, or maintenance-related closures, such as holidays, repairs, or outages in digital services. It is often used in contexts where the emphasis is on when access is restricted rather than when it is available.

In practice, suljinaikoja may appear as part of longer notices or catalog entries that specify the periods when services are unavailable. It tends to be found in official documents or historical records rather than in casual conversation, where aukioloajat would be the usual term. Related Finnish terms include aukioloajat (opening hours) and other phrases that describe when something is open or closed.