In this note we give a necessary condition for having an almost complex structure on the product S 2m × M , where M is a connected orientable closed manifold. We show that if the Euler characteristic χ(M ) = 0, then except for finitely many values of m, we do not have almost complex structure on S 2m × M . In the particular case when M = CP n , n = 1, we show that if n ≡ 3 (mod 4) then S 2m × CP n has an almost complex structure if and only if m = 1, 3. As an application we obtain conditions on the nonexistence of almost complex structure on Dold manifolds.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 57R15 (57R20).