McLaughlin is a lunar impact crater that is located just behind the northwestern rim on the far side of the Moon.

This is a heavily eroded crater with an irregular rim that is mark by a number of smaller impacts.

The interior floor is generally level, except for a low right offset to the southeast of the midpoint, and some irregularities near the southwest and northern inner walls.

Prior to formal naming by the IAU in 1970,[1] McLaughlin was called Crater 108.

[2] By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to McLaughlin.