Background and purpose: Urban trees provide a number of services including shade and thermal attenuation.This is related to morphological and physiological characteristics of trees and may vary between species and even between individuals of the same species.The aim of this work was to identify thermic attenuations on concrete sidewalks under six tropical urban trees with six different types of shadows.Materials and methods: In Santa Marta City, Colombia (10º12´20" N, 74º13´33" W, 10 meters above sea level and 31ºC temperature), we selected six trees (species) with different types of shade, and they are evaluated for soil temperature and the temperature in the shade and off throughout the day for four different days of the year.ANOVA and t-tests were performed with R program in order to identify the influence of the specie, the day, the hour and the position (at the thermic comfort level, surface temperature) on the temperature results obtained.urban surface materials [11][12][13].For example, asphalt roads can reach temperatures over 70ºC without shadow effect causing a reduction in the life cycle of this kind of surface and inducing other effects such as the release of toxic -mutagenic gases [14,15].The aim of this work was to identify thermic attenuations on concrete sidewalks under six tropical urban trees with six different types of shadows in Santa Marta city, Colombia.