The invention discloses a U-shaped pipe superheater and belongs to the technical field of boiler part structure. The U-shaped pipe superheater comprises a superheater pipe system, an inlet header and an outlet header, the inlet header and the outlet header are arranged at two ends of the superheater pipe system respectively, the superheater pipe system comprises small headers and multiple U-shaped pipes, and two ends of each U-shaped pipe are fixed on two adjacent small headers respectively. The U-shaped superheater is simple in structure, convenient to manufacture and maintain, high in safety, small in heat deviation and suitable for arrangement of boilers different in steam flow speed.