Two shift thermometers have been developed in order to determine the exact sample temperature at elevated temperatures in MAS NMR. The probe was calibrated for different temperatures and bearing pressures using the structural phase transition NMR spectra of carbon tetrabromide (319.86 K), DABCO (351.08 K), rubidium nitrate (437 K), and lithium sodium sulfate (791 K). Temperature-dependent 119Sn MAS NMR spectra of Pr 2Sn 2O 7 and Sm 2Sn 2O 7 were then recorded. The temperature dependence is caused by the hyperfine interaction between the paramagnetic electron spin and the 119Sn nucleus. Pr 2Sn 2O 7 proved to be an extremely sensitive linear high-temperature shift thermometer: its sensitivity is 14.1 ppm/K at room temperature and 2.7 ppm/K at 790 K. Sm 2Sn 2O 7 also proved to be very sensitive to temperature, although its dependence was not linear. At room temperature its sensitivity is 1.1 ppm/K. The temperature dependence of the shift can be fitted to an equation derived from the Van Vleck equation, taking into account the ground and the first excited states of Sm 3+.