This paper presents the numerical results on the mechanical characteristics of a non-shallow hyperbolic paraboloidal shell obtained by means of the finite difference method. In order to obtain accurate solutions with a small number of meshes, higher order finite difference operators with error terms of o( h 4) are applied not only to the equilibrium equations but also to the boundary conditions. The applicability range of the shallow shell theory to a non-shallow hyperbolic paraboloidal shell is clarified through the numerical examples.