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Condensed Financial Information - Parent Company Only Income statement (Details) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012
Condensed Financial Statements, Captions [Line Items]
Total Non-Interest Income	$ 167,379us-gaap_NoninterestIncome	$ 187,664us-gaap_NoninterestIncome	$ 216,412us-gaap_NoninterestIncome
Income Before Income Taxes	210,500us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesMinorityInterestAndIncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments	212,925us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesMinorityInterestAndIncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments	217,446us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesMinorityInterestAndIncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments
Income tax benefit	52,606us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit	51,085us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit	57,601us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Net Income	157,894us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss	161,840us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss	159,845us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss
Parent
Condensed Financial Statements, Captions [Line Items]
Dividends from subsidiaries	139,150fult_DividendIncomeFromSubsidiaries / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	114,438fult_DividendIncomeFromSubsidiaries / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	142,000fult_DividendIncomeFromSubsidiaries / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember
Other	120,543us-gaap_OtherIncome / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	106,297us-gaap_OtherIncome / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	88,380us-gaap_OtherIncome / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember
Total Non-Interest Income	259,693us-gaap_NoninterestIncome / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	220,735us-gaap_NoninterestIncome / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	230,380us-gaap_NoninterestIncome / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember
Expenses	152,243us-gaap_OperatingExpenses / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	138,164us-gaap_OperatingExpenses / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	124,525us-gaap_OperatingExpenses / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember
Income Before Income Taxes	107,450us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesMinorityInterestAndIncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	82,571us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesMinorityInterestAndIncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	105,855us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesMinorityInterestAndIncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember
Income tax benefit	(10,549)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	(10,744)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	(10,847)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember
Income before equity in undistributed income of subsidiaries	117,999fult_IncomeLossAttributableToParentBeforeEquityMethodInvestmentsNetofTax / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	93,315fult_IncomeLossAttributableToParentBeforeEquityMethodInvestmentsNetofTax / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	116,702fult_IncomeLossAttributableToParentBeforeEquityMethodInvestmentsNetofTax / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember
Net Income	157,894us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	161,840us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember	159,845us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember
Parent | Bank subsidiaries
Condensed Financial Statements, Captions [Line Items]
Non-bank subsidiaries	33,134us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember / us-gaap_ScheduleOfEquityMethodInvestmentEquityMethodInvesteeNameAxis = fult_BankSubsidiaryMember	56,552us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember / us-gaap_ScheduleOfEquityMethodInvestmentEquityMethodInvesteeNameAxis = fult_BankSubsidiaryMember	46,350us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember / us-gaap_ScheduleOfEquityMethodInvestmentEquityMethodInvesteeNameAxis = fult_BankSubsidiaryMember
Parent | Non-bank subsidiaries
Condensed Financial Statements, Captions [Line Items]
Non-bank subsidiaries	$ 6,761us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember / us-gaap_ScheduleOfEquityMethodInvestmentEquityMethodInvesteeNameAxis = fult_NonbankSubsidiaryMember	$ 11,973us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember / us-gaap_ScheduleOfEquityMethodInvestmentEquityMethodInvesteeNameAxis = fult_NonbankSubsidiaryMember	$ (3,207)us-gaap_IncomeLossFromEquityMethodInvestments / dei_LegalEntityAxis = us-gaap_ParentCompanyMember / us-gaap_ScheduleOfEquityMethodInvestmentEquityMethodInvesteeNameAxis = fult_NonbankSubsidiaryMember

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